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i2i – Italians to Italians, 30 investments in start ups and more to come

i2i – Italians to Italians -London, Shangri – La Hotel at the Shard, March 7th 2016
The London based Italian Venture Capital Company opens its second year with a road show between Milan and London: an opportunity to launch its latest investment, the new international version of the prestigious Sailing Series, soon crowdfunding on Seedrs.com

i2i, the London based Venture Capital arm of The Family Officer Group, announces the results of its first year of activities, its first 30 investments and goes international with the prestigious and successful format ‘Sailing Series’.

Based in London since 1999, The Family Officer Group, launched i2i in December 2014 as a response to the opportunity offered by the recent massive influx of Italians in the United Kingdom. i2i invests in Italian entrepreneurs incorporating their business in London and starting from here their international expansion.

i2i received a first capital injection of 510,000 pounds, later increased to more than 4 M pounds, still exclusively financed by The Family Officer Group. This allowed i2i to close more than 30 deals in one year versus the 12 originally targeted.
For 2016 i2i has already committed extra 1.8 M pounds.

The presentation of this amazing year, on the 7th March at the Shangri La Hotel at the Shard, will also correspond to the launch of the crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.com of the latest investment of i2i: Sailing Series.

Sailing Series, company founded by the international sailing champion and Olympic athlete Riccardo Simoneschi, is a format of sailing events with 20 years of successful media and financial results.
In 2015 the Series involved 240 international teams, 20 European races and 150,000 spectators with an extensive media coverage in more than 40 countries.
For the 2016 Series there will be the addition of a new class on the top of the successful Melges: the innovative M32 catamarans with a new race format and a larger public exposure.

BPSE, the company controlling the format, moved to London from Milan with the aim to increase its visibility, international partnerships, investments in the technology and media so much needed to take the Series to the next level.

The crowdfunding event, targeting a minimum of 250,000 pounds, aims to accelerate this evolution and the value generation.

For further information: info@i2i.london

Pianist without borders: or the incredible story of Fabio Tedde

London – Pianos. Streets, continents, miles. Sleepless nights, crossing stories, enthusiasm, love. It is hard to sum up in just few words the story of Fabio Tedde (you can find him on facebook as Pianist Without Borders).

We met him one day, while he was performing at Green Park Station, in the London Underground. Something magic hailed from his music. Something rare. So we decided to have a chat with him.

And we fell for his life story. So thrilling, so brave, so full of hope. Everything begin 15 years ago, when Fabio’s farmer daily life in a small village called Magomadas in Oristano province (Sardinia, Italy) is interrupted by the fate. A lottery leads him on an unexptected journey in Egypt. And on the way back the intuition that is going to change his life forever: he is in the airport about to fly home when he realizes he can’t speak English at all.

Not a single word. He can’t even order his sandwich at the bar. A change is needed. In a second he decides to quit his previous life and to move to London. Where he would learn English and explore the world. The beginning of his londoner life is a classic one. Italian? «Pizzaiolo». During 7 months he works as a pizza- maker.

But the fate knocks to his door soon again. He is enjoying a Piccadilly ordinary night when the music of some african musicians steals his heart. He spends the whole night playing with them on the street. And since then every night he goes there to fill the night with rhythm – no matter what, no matter “tomorrow 5 am you start working”.

African music changes his life and so he decides to go to Africa – to learn traditional rhythms from native African masters. And now, that he is not only a great percussionist but also a fantastic pianist and composer, he want to bring a piano to rural African villages outside the big cities creating spontaneous moments using the music as a universal language.

“Fabio he has played over 770 street public pianos around the world, all designed by local artists, his mission and purpose is to take down the barriers among the people, to connect them in a musical environment where there are no roles: you can play, other can sing, other dance, everyone can provide their artistic skills in an atmosphere of fraternity that his smile and humbleness promote naturally.”

To do his African tour Fabio would like to find a sponsor. A sponsor that makes him able to get a van with a lift to travel across Africa and bring his music in the wildest corners of the World. Even better if the sponsor is an «eco-friendly one» – says Fabio – as «I don’t want to produce anymore pollution».

For a dream still to come another one is already on the move, spreading all across the world. We are talking about the project Global Public Pianos, co-founded by Fabio Tedde and Delphine Orliange (https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalpublicpianos): GPP is a movement promoting the idea of using pianos to transform public spaces into freely accessible auditoriums that allow people of all walks of life to connect through music «Public pianos enrich the entire community around them.

It is something unique and incredibly powerful» – explains Fabio. In all those years of crazy love and passion for music and for connecting with people, Fabio met so many amazing people and has countless stories to share.

«One night I was playing in Brooklyn, New York, after playing all night with my friends a homeless passed by as he heard the music from the park.

At the beginning he was just listening me to play, and then he started singing on my music. He was originally from Poland and, when young, he was playing the accordion at the weddings, as a Polish friend there translated for us.

At a certain moment he said he knew an italian song, that he started to sing in polish but the refrain was in italian “Che sara’ della mia vita che sara’…what will it be of my life what will it be…”.

He sang , I played. It was a surprised for all of us there , and we enjoyed each other musical skills for about two hours. In his eyes you could read the joy that music sent to him straight to his heart and soul, tears of joy i would say, and he has also touched my heart deep and it was a true honor for me to play and share the music and spent some quality time together.

He thanked me so much for this magic moment but really the one who should thank is me to him for giving us a sense of simple and beautiful emotions, that touched deeply all of us there. I think that evening was so full of beautiful emotions that, for the few people there, will stay in our memory forever ».

If you are in London have a look @ King’s Cross station. You might meet Fabio playing there. Or maybe we will find him in Italy, where public pianos are getting their way.

Or maybe you will meet him in Nepal, or in South America. He simply doesn’t know where he will be in the future, but he won’t stop spreading music. No managers, no labels, no employers: Fabio will keep being wild and free. Giving his music, his passion, his love to the world. A story almost incredible, but true. Believe it or not: music can be a real miracle!

You can Follow Fabio journey on the following links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pianistwhitoutborders

Youtube: http://tiny.cc/Pianist-Without-Borders

Twitter: http://tiny.cc/PianistWithoutBorders

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pianistwithoutborders

Instagram: pianist_without_borders

Talent line-up for Cinema Made In Italy 2016 10 – 14 March – Ciné Lumière – South Kensington

Cinema Made in Italy returns to London’s Ciné Lumière from 10 – 14 March 2016. The sixth edition of London’s best-loved Italian film festival offers another stellar line-up, and once again screenings will be followed by Q&As with visiting filmmakers. CINEMA MADE IN ITALY2016 marks the sixth year of Cinema Made in Italy, an annual festival of Italian contemporary cinema, organised by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, in collaboration with Ciné Lumière and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London.

This year’s edition showcases nine titles selected by film experts Giorgio Gosetti and Adrian Wootton, reflecting the best of Italian production, from Anna by Giuseppe Gaudino which won Valeria Golino a Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at Venice Film Festival to Wondrous Boccaccio by Masters Taviani Brothers, freely inspired by The Decameron.

Other highlights include The First Light by Vincenzo Marra starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Claudio Cupellini’s romance The Beginners with 2010 Cannes Best Actor Elio Germano and this year’s Italian entry for Oscars, Don’t Be Bad by Claudio Caligari.

To top it all off, directors and actors will attend on stage Q&As after the screenings.

( all actor will be present in Italoeuropeo and LondonONEradio live interview)

Giorgio Gosetti – programmer for Cinema Made In Italy 2016; a renowned film critic and festival programmer who also regularly sits on film festival juries, and was deputy director of the Venice International Film Festival from 1992 – 1996.

Daniele Orazi – Head of Officine Artistiche, one of Italy’s most prominent talent agencies today. Clients include Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Luca Marinelli, Sara Serraiocco (2016 European ShootingStar).

Full programme and booking details:

http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/festivals-series/cinema-made-in-italy/

The five day annual event is organised by Istituto Luce – Cinecittà’s promotional department in Rome (Filmitalia),with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the official agency for the promotion of Italian language and culture in England and Wales.

CINEMA MADE IN ITALY 2016
ANNA (Per Amor Vostro)

Director: Giuseppe Gaudino – 110 mins

Cast: Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriano Giannini, Salvatore Cantalupo, Rosaria De Cicco .Anna is a forty-something Neapolitan wife and mother of three teenagers, whose life is turned upside down when handsome soap star Michele (played by Adriano Giannini, son of Giancarlo), enters her mundane life. She soon finds herself precariously juggling family life with newfound romance, in the hope that this holds the key to regaining the long lost courage and happiness from her childhood. Anna premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, where lead Valeria Golino won the award for Best

FIRST LIGHT (La Prima Luce)

Director: Vincenzo Marra – 108 mins

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Daniela Ramirez, Luis Gnecco, Alejandro Goic, Gianni Pezzolla

Marco is a young and ambitious lawyer who lives in Bari with his South American partner Martina and their eight year old son, Mateo. When Martina decides that their relationship is over, she flees to her homeland, taking Mateo with her. They vanish without trace, and out of desperation Marco decides to travel to South America to track them down. What ensues is a harrowing account of an international child custody battle told from Marco’s point of view.

THE BEGINNERS (Alaska)

Director: Claudio Cupellini – 125 mins Cast: Elio Germano, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Valerio Binasco, Paolo Pierobon, Marco D’Amore, Roschdy After an unconventional chance meeting Fausto (Germano) and Nadine (Bergès-Frisbey) embark on a turbulent journey, with the countless twists and turns that come with it. When Fausto is offered a chance to enter into business with an ageing party boy to open a trendy new nightclub (Alaska), their 3 love and devotion are well and truly put to the test, to say the least. Moving between Paris, Milan, prison and the fashion world, The Beginners is a whirlwind love story with a difference. The writer- director Claudio Cupellini collaborated as a director on the recent Italian mafia series Gomorrah.

WONDROUS BOCCACCIO (Maraviglioso Boccaccio)

Directors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – 120 mins

Cast: Michele Riondino, Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti, Vittoria

Puccini, Kasia Smutniak, Riccardo Scamarcio As the plague ravages the city dwellers of Florence in 1384, a group of young aristocratic men and women take shelter in a remote villa in the surrounding Tuscan hills. To take their minds off their precarious situation, they decide to tell each other stories about love and its many facets: fulfilled, thwarted, illicit and rewarded. In this fresh adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, the Taviani brothers pay tribute to one of the greatest books about storytelling, reminding contemporary audiences of the power of storytelling as a way of escaping the ailments of society. The role of Guiscardo is played by

Michele Riondino, the lead in the BBC Four series ‘The Young Montalbano’.

GOD WILLING (Se Dio Vuole)

Director: Edoardo Falcone – 87 mins

Cast: Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo Pesce .This hilarious comedy tells the story of a well respected surgeon, Tommaso, who believes his family has been brainwashed by a charismatic priest. When his son goes on a retreat at a monastery, the atheist Tommaso decides to go undercover to get to the bottom of this ‘crisis’ he and his loved ones are embroiled in. This Italian box office hit earned Edoardo Falcone the David di Donatello Best New

DON’T BE BAD (Non Essere Cattivo)

Director: Claudio Caligari – 100 mins

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico,Roberta Mattei, Valentino Campitelli, Giulia Set in the 90s in the suburbs of Rome and in Ostia, Don’t Be Bad focuses on the frenzied exploits of Vittorio and Cesare. In their early twenties, our young hedonists’ lives revolve around dirty money, fast cars, nightclubs and drugs. When Vittorio decides that enough is enough he tries to break away

from the wild side. He swaps his junkie girlfriend for an unmarried mother, and finds a job on a building site. His best friend Cesare on the other hand does not manage to break free from his self- destructive lifestyle, and Vittorio tries to rescue him. But is it too late?

THEY CALL ME JEEG ROBOT (Lo Chiamavano Jeeg Robot)

Director: Gabriele Mainetti – 112 mins

Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Stefano Ambrogi, Ilenia Pastorelli, Maurizio Tesei After coming into contact with a radioactive substance, petty thief Enzo suddenly discovers he has superpowers. His dreams of how his new gift will do wonders for his life of crime soon disappear when he runs into Alessia, a traumatized young woman who is convinced he is the Japanese manga character Steel Jeeg, come to help humanity. Combining classic superhero themes with Italian social and political woes, Gabriele Mainetti’s first feature, which premiered at the 2015 Rome Film Festival, is a gritty and electrifying European superhero film.

LONG LIVE THE BRIDE (Viva La Sposa)

Director: Ascanio Celestini – 87 mins

Cast: Ascanio Celestini, Alba Rohrwacher, Salvatore Striano, Francesco De Miranda Nicola is a puppeteer who lives in a bleak area on the outskirts of Rome, among lowlifes, drifters, and labourers. He drinks too much but takes care of the adolescent Salvatore, who may or may not be his son by a local prostitute. When driving around in his van one day, he hits and kills Sabatino, an old man who stages accidents with unsuspecting drivers, and lives off the insurance scams. Soon Nicola is drawn into a netherworld of petty crime gone wrong, in a country where it is too late for hope.

CHLORINE (Cloro)

Director: Lamberto Sanfelice – 94 mins

Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Ivan Franek, Anatol Sassi, Andrea Vergoni Seventeen-year-old Jenny (Sara Serraiocco, 2016 European Shooting Star) dreams of becoming a synchronised swimmer, but her carefree life in the seaside town of Ostia near Rome is turned upside down by the sudden death of her mother. With a sick father and nine year old brother to look after, Jenny has no choice but to move to a remote mountain village in Abruzzo. Before long she starts to get weighed down by these new responsibilities, all the while yearning to run after her dream. Chlorine debuted at last year’s Sundance and Berlin film festivals.

PROGRAM

Ciné Lumière : 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7 2DT, T +44 (0)20 7871 3515

Tickets: £10-12 plus booking fee

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Marino Sinibaldi and Walter Veltroni present- The novel Ciao and the movie I bambini sanno

Ciao (Rizzoli, 2015) – Talk in Italian with English simultaneous translation This book tells of the impossbile encounter of the authour with is father, who passed away when the writer was only a one year old. Walter got to know his father only through mementos he found at home and testimonies of the people who knew and worked with him.

In the book they meet as strangers, they are together for the first time and only for one night. They tell each other of their lives. It is a journey through loss and search of roots, till the discovery of a common thread.

I bambini sanno (2015, 113’, colour, with English subtitles) 39 children between the ages of 8 and 13 are asked about their views on Italy, life, adults, love, passions, family, and the future.

The director explains contemporary Italy thorugh the voices of these children. Marino Sinibaldi is a journalist, literary critic and director of RadioTre. He is co-founder of the journal Linea d’Ombra and he published Pulp.

La Letteratura nell’era della simultaneità (Donzelli, 1997) and “It’s Hard to Talk about Yourself” (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Walter Veltroni is an Italian writer, filmmaker, journalist and politician, who served as the first leader of the Democratic Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Culture (1998-2001) and as Mayor of Rome from June 2001 to February 2008.

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Date: Monday, March 07, 2016

Opening times: 6pm

Venue: ICI London

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A Winning Idea: a Conversation with Sir Rocco Forte and Riccardo Zacconi

The Italian Society is delighted to invite you to a unique panel discussion with two leading entrepreneurs, Sir Rocco Forte and Riccardo Zacconi. In conversation with Fabio Cavalera of Corriere della Sera, the speakers will discuss their current and previous professional experiences, their links with Italy and the long-term future of their companies and wider industries. The discussion, which will be in English, will be followed by a drinks reception with Italian canapés in the foyer. The event is generously sponsored by i2i – Italians to Italians.

Thursday, 3 March 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00 (GMT) – Great Hall – King’s College London. Strand. London WC2R 2LS – View Map

Event Description

Speakers:

SIR ROCCO FORTE is the Chairman of Rocco Forte Hotels, a luxury hotel company he founded in 1996. The group comprises ten multi-award winning properties, including Brown’s Hotel in London and Hotel de Russie in Rome. It has recently launched its eleventh property in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A veteran of the hospitality industry, Sir Rocco joined Forte Plc in 1969, becoming CEO in 1983 and Chairman in 1992, when he succeeded his father, the late Lord Charles Forte. During his time at Forte, Sir Rocco had responsibility for more than 800 hotels, 1,000 restaurants and almost 100,000 employees around the world. Forte Plc, however, was sold in 1996 following a hostile take-over bid and has since been broken up. Sir Rocco was knighted in 1994 for services to the UK tourism industry and received the Gran Croce dell’Ordine al Merito della Republicca Italiana for his entrepreneurial merits in 2005. He has served as President of the British Hospitality Association and as member of the Executive Committee of the World Travel & Tourism Council. A keen sportsman, Sir Rocco has represented Britain in several editions of the World Triathlon Championships.

RICCARDO ZACCONI is one of the founders of King Digital Entertainment. He has served as the company’s CEO since 2003. King is a leading interactive entertainment company and is the pioneer of the mobile games app Candy Crush Saga. With over 20 years of experience in strategic management, consulting and e-commerce, Mr Zacconi brings exceptional knowledge and expertise to both the social and casual gaming domains. Previously, Mr Zacconi served as vice president of European Sales and Marketing at uDate.com Ltd and was involved in driving market penetration and partnerships until the company was acquired by InterActive Corporation in 2002. Before that, he was managing director for Spray Network GmbH an online portal based in Hamburg. In this role, Mr Zacconi demonstrated his understanding for developing solid company strategy, intelligent plans for sustainable growth and strategic partnerships, which supported the successful sale of Spray Network to Lycos for $764 million. In addition, Mr Zacconi has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital Partners, a Qualified Case Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and a consultant at LEK Consulting LLP. He holds a BA in Economics from LUISS University.

Chair:

FABIO CAVALERA is the London Correspondent of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. He has been in this position since 2007. Mr Cavalera joined Corriere della Sera in 1978. Between 2004 and 2007, he was the paper’s foreign correspondent in Beijing, China. Prior to that, he was political correspondent and, subsequently, editor-in-chief in Milan and Rome.

People in London believe drivers of small cars are safest on the road

– People in London and the South East believe drivers of small and compact cars are the safest on the road, new research conducted on behalf of TomTom Telematics has revealed. The study, which addressed more than 1,000 Brits1, revealed that 23 per cent of people from London and the South East selected drivers of small and compact cars as the safest and most careful road users.

They were closely followed by drivers of saloon cars (20 per cent), while bus and coach drivers came in third with 16 per cent and cabbies finished fourth (13 per cent). High performance/sports car drivers finished joint bottom of the list, selected as the safest by just six per cent of respondents. Truck drivers (seven per cent), van drivers (eight per cent) and SUV drivers (nine per cent) rounded out the bottom four. Small and compact car drivers also topped the list of the most polite and courteous road users, taking 20 per cent of the vote.

Saloon car drivers came second with 18 per cent, while bus and coach drivers came third (16 per cent) and cabbies were fourth (10 per cent). Drivers of high performance/sports cars and truck drivers finished bottom of the list, each selected as the most polite and courteous by just three per cent of respondents, closely followed by van drivers (four per cent).

The research also outlined a significant challenge for businesses, as 67 per cent of people from London and the South East said they would be less inclined to do business with a company if they saw its drivers behaving in an unsafe or discourteous manner on the roads. Commenting on the results, Taco van der Leij, VP Marketing at TomTom Telematics, said: “More than 1.4 million people are killed or injured on Europe’s roads each year2, so all road users have a responsibility to improve driving standards. Technology also has a key role to play and modern telematics already provides drivers with real-time coaching and feedback on driving style to help them improve.

TomTom Telematics is committed to raising driving standards through its fleet management systems for businesses and connected car technology for motorists.” Van der Leij continued: “It’s also important for companies to understand the impact that poor driving standards have on their reputations.

It’s easy to overlook the fact that their vehicle fleets are all branded and the behaviour of their drivers can have a significant impact on how other road users view them. By empowering employees to drive more safely through access to the appropriate training and technological aids, businesses can in fact enhance their brands.”

St. Patrick day Failte go Eireann: welcome to Ireland!

London – On 17th March, London goes green and celebrates the Irish patron with music, dancing and rivers of beer.
However, who was he? First, we need to dispel the common myth about its origins: St. Patrick was not Irish, but Briton, or maybe Gaul.
Pirates kidnapped him and taken in the green land of Ireland, where he remained for a few years until he managed to escape and return to his family. photo montaigne.altervista.org]
Then he developed his missionary vocation and decided to come back to the places of his slavery so to preach Christianity.
He began a real religious instruction path that led him to be consecrated bishop of Ireland.
So many overly laudatory legends revolve around his figure.
Definitely famous among these is the one that gives him a vision in which Christ would show a cave, better known as the famous St. Patrick’s well that the saint would have crossed, catching a glimpse of Paradise, after the pains of Purgatory and Hell.
It seems that this miraculous event took place on a small island of Lough Derg, North West Ireland and right there, a church was built where you can find many pilgrims especially during summertime.
Beyond the legends, the feast dedicated to Saint Patrick crosses national borders and goes all over the world, and London is obviously ready to celebrate it with dignity.
Last year the event gathered more than 100 thousand people in the city.
Celebrations strictly take place the Sunday before the big day: on the 13th of March, Trafalgar Square becomes the perfect theatre to revelry, with entertainment shows, movies, Irish music and dancing of course.
The parade will start from Piccadilly at midday to continue on Lower Regent Street, Pall Mall East, Whitehall and Trafalgar.
For those who are interested, you can actively take part at the show by registering on www.eventbrite.co.uk site.
Expect a great pomp, floats, marching bands from all over the United Kingdom, sport clubs, dance schools and groups representing as many as possible Irish counties.

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The Irish community relocated under the Big Ben is certainly numerous and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day inevitably means to stop by one of the many Irish pubs around the city to enjoy a pint of Guinness.
For the occasion, the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith offers a discussion on social change in modern Ireland with the extraordinary participation of the former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, interviewed by Fergan Kean, writer and correspondent for the BBC. Appointment on Thursday 10th of March at 7.30 pm, City Hall, the Queen’s Walk.

ABC ECONOMICS held its first Understanding Brexit conference

London – on Saturday 20 February at the University of Westminster, ABC ECONOMICS held its first Understanding Brexit conference.

Approximately 70 people attended the event, comprising working professionals, entrepreneurs, academics, students and members of MIE (Movimento Italiano in Europa) and the London European Club.

The event – moderated by Paola De Pascali – was also broadcasted live by LondonOneRadio, with an average of 100 people tuned in at all times.

The conference featured a number of keynote speakers.

Luigi Jacopo Borrello, an academic lecturer, outlined the reasons for a in-out referendum, analysing the political scenarios and how the EU-UK relationship is likely to change in case of Brexit.

Giulia Carnà, a contract lawyer, described the framework around Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, explaining the procedures the EU members need to adhere to in order to terminate their membership.

After the coffee break (courtesy of Luadan Future Trade), Stefano Francesco Fugazzi (founder of ABC Economics and author of the bestseller ‘Brexit?’) spoke on the impacts of immigration on occupational wages, presenting the conclusions of a recent Bank of England research paper. Mr Fugazzi observed that “if the UK were to leave the EU, the costs arising from EU regulations would not disappear at all as actually much would depend on what path Britain took outside the EU.

If the UK were to leave the EU to join the European Economic Area (the EEA), it is believed that approximately 93 per cent of the EU’s key regulations would continue to apply.”

Claudio Calogiuri (Solicitor, Partner of Mentor Legal LLP Solicitors) illustrated how immigration law and policies may change under a Brexit scenario. Additionally, Mr Calogiuri remarked on the role of EU nationals in supporting the UK economy.

Conference contents will be published by ABC Economics in due course.

ABOUT ABC ECONOMICS

ABC Economics has been cited on several occasions by the media, making a splash on the front pages of Il

Sole 24 Ore and Il Giornale, mentioned by Otto e Mezzo (a TV programme) and by a handful of Italian blogs,

in addition to Wikipedia and a number of US news portals e.g. Zero Hedge, TV channels and UK radio

stations. Additionally, some of our ABC Economics work was translated into and reported by French and

Russian news portals.

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BELSTAFF IV TYLER AND BELSTAFF CELEBRATE THE PREMIERE OF THEIR FILM ‘FALLING UP’ AT BELSTAFF’S SOHO POP UP

Belstaff’s Ambassador and Creative Contributor – previewed a short film entitled Falling Up, executively produced by and starring herself.

In the film Liv retraces the footsteps of renowned aviatrix from the 20s Amelia Earhart – one of the first women that Belstaff dressed.

Guests including Amirah Kassem, Becka Diamond, Charlotte Groeneveld, Cleo Wade, Jamie Burke, Johannes Huebl, Matthew Hitt, Margot, Michele Hicks (all wearing Belstaff) as well as Jefferson Hack. Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Nell Diamond who stopped by to celebrate with Liv.

Throughout the evening guests enjoyed music by Fabrizio Moretti (wearing Belstaff) whilst sipping champagne and watching the film, which was projected within the space.

The event was held at the Belstaff pop-up, located at 63 Greene Street, in downtown Manhattan. Having just opened their doors on February 6th, for a two-week stint, this is Belstaff’s first pop-up store in the U.S.

The 1900 square foot space features a new, modern design concept utilizing never before seen images from Belstaff’s archives.

The store showcases the women’s Spring ready-to-wear and accessories collections, the 2nd main collection from Delphine Ninous, who was appointed VP of women’s design last year – as well as the menswear collection.

Following the cocktail and film premiere, Liv Tyler and Jefferson Hack hosted an intimate dinner at Fat Radish to celebrate the occasion.

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Guests include Annabelle Dexter Jones, Anja Rubik, Craig McDean, Dustin Yellin, Frankie Rayder, Helena Christensen, Jennifer Aniston, Johan Lindeberg, Justin Theroux, Kate Young, Mario Sorrenti, Nur Khan, Sandra Brant, Steven Tyler and Waris Ahluwalia.

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