Embassy Row

 MILAN -- Italian cuisine has been officially recognised on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a milestone hailed by mi

 BRUSSELS – The European Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, has opened an inquiry into a complaint by David Petrie, the head of the association of foreign university lecturers in Italy, over the Commission

  ROME -- Concerns about political favoritism have resurfaced at the UN F

 ROME – Byzantine efforts by the wily FAO Human Resources director Serge Nakouzi eveidnelty designed to keep a West African poverty-buster in a series of high pai

 ROME – The latest report of the Ombudsman at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, due to be published in July, still has not been released, evidently becaus

 ROME – Cultural quango ICCROM’s General Assembly this month rejected budget proposals by beleaguered Director General Aruna Gujral and exposed a collapse of confidence in her leadership — through

   ROME – FAO watchers have been whiling away the long winter evenings by following the nepotistic fortunes of Filippo P

 ROME – World Food Programme employees from Arab countries working in the WFP Haiti country office were replaced with black African staffers evidently because “th

 ROME – The FAO office in Saudi Arabia invites candidates to apply for professional posts in the sand-swept Kingdom and puts highly qualified applicants through n

 ROME – UN investigators from New York have opened a probe into management of its staff in Haiti where the Kenyan country director, Wanja Kaaria, allegedly hired

 ROME – Despite budget cuts by the Trump administration, many WFP staffers are delighted at the US president’s stand against DEI and what they see as the hope it

 ROME — An estate agent and an insurance broker from Monza make for an

 ROME – ROME – ICCROM donor nations stopped short Friday of firing the cultural quango’s beleaguered director general, A

 ROME – WFP’s labor union and staff association representatives are doing nothing to prevent the mass axeing of staff and consultants in the UN agency's Communica

 ROME – WFP’s chief of staff Meghan Latcovich and director of communications Michele Quintaglie have axed as many as half of the UN agency’s employees and consult

 ROME -- Staff in the Human Resources Division arrived at work this week to find an unexpected new ritual awaiting them: a daily dawn patrol by the bearded HR Dir

 RIYADH -- UNIDO director general Gerd Müller begins his second term with a costly jamboree in the Saudi capital Sunday but internal critics describe the UN agency as troubled monarchy where qualif

 ROME –- Experts gathered at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome to discuss the global crisis of learning poverty and the need for education in emergencies, with the goal of raising awareness

 VIENNA – The head of the UNIDO Somalia investment team, Ygor Scarcia, has been suspended and placed under investigation on suspicion of allegedly pumping the UN agency’s money into fraudulent sche

 ROME – British and Commonwealth military personnel, diplomats and civilians gathered at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in the Roman district of Testaccio to mark Remembrance Day, 80 years af

 ROME – The Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary with an afternoon reception to mark a fruitful decade of building relations between Europe and the Gulf Cooperatio

 ROME – The Russian Ambassador to Italy, Alexey Paramonov, has been summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an official reprimand after Russian politician, Maria Zakharova, issued a stateme

 ROME -- During a phone conversation held on Oct 22, Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto officially confirmed Italy’s participation in NATO’s Forwa

 ROME -- Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto officially have confirmed Italy’s participation in NATO’s Forward Land Forces (FLF) in Finland.

 ROME – As many as 12 Irish, Croatian, French and German MEPs have issued a strong statement in support of foreign lecturers working for universities in Italy after what the Irish MEP Cynthia Ni Mh