Finally we are back to talking about the assets of the exiles. The credit goes to the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, whose Provincial Committee of Gorizia promoted a round table held on Friday 21 March in the capital of the Isonzo at the “Carlo X” room of the Grand Hotel Entourage in Piazza S. Antonio. In addition to the large audience, many followed the interventions in live streaming on the site www.direttatv.net or later on Youtube also through the site www.anvgd.it. Introducing the works, the national vice president of the ANVGD Rodolfo Ziberna defined the question as very uncertain, recalling that Italy paid a large part of the war debts to Yugoslavia...

PULA – Of the 320 European projects that Istria has implemented so far, 88 have been completed with Italian partners, and 19 of these with Veneto. This was underlined by the President of the Region Valter Flego during the press conference at the end of the meeting in Pula with the Consul General of Italy in Rijeka Renato Cianfarani. «These numbers confirm the considerable weight of Italy in our economic and commercial exchanges» added Flego, explaining that he had discussed with the consul the next European tenders to which the Italian and Croatian partners intend to join jointly. Veneto is therefore the privileged partner Region of Istria. It is no coincidence that today,...

ROME – Simone Cristicchi is an honorary member of the Società di Studi Fiumani-Archivio Museo storico di Fiume in Rome. The nomination of the Roman singer-songwriter is an important recognition, almost a sign of gratitude, for his civil commitment in favor of an often forgotten cause, that of the Italians of the Eastern Adriatic. His show “Magazzino 18”, in fact, has significantly contributed to making known and spreading on a national Italian scale, as well as in Slovenia and Croatia, the drama of the foibe and the exodus, but also of the suffering endured by the Italians who remained under Tito's regime; pages of history often ignored, forgotten. Ten years later...

As a discussion gets longer, the likelihood of a comparison with the Nazis or Hitler approaches absolute certainty. Announced in 1990 by the American lawyer Mike Godwin (source Wikipedia), this law that bears his name holds that in every conflict of opinion, especially on the web, sooner or later there will be someone who will compare an interlocutor with whom he disagrees to the Führer. At that point the discussion ends, because the reference to absolute evil is disproportionate and leaves no room for other arguments. But this is not always true: as the Moscow writer Leonid Bershidsky pointed out on Bloomberg View, in this March 2014 comparing Vladimir...

At the Circolo Ufficiali of Palazzo Cusani, in Milan, we met yesterday (March 17) Giorgio Federico Siboni. Senior editor of «Coordinamento Adriatico» and technical-scientific commissioner of the CDM, he was the winner of the 2013 Tanzella Prize for historical essays with Il confine orientale. Da Campoformio all'approdo europeo. The occasion coincided with Siboni's recent return from London, where he went between March 15 and 16, to meet some exponents of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus living in the British capital. «These are now second-generation exiles, fully integrated with English society» – Siboni told us. «After the...

Fabrizio Somma, he is the new president of the People's University of Trieste that is heading towards a new declared season after the February elections that ousted the leadership and the group of Silvio Delbello. Somma, already vice president, inside the Upt by designation of the Region, is the 18th at the top since 1899 when the institution was born under the leadership of the liberal-national Felice Venezian. His vice president was elected the number one winner (by number of votes) of these painful and also contested elections, Manuele Braico, also (since 2013) president of the Istrian Communities. Yesterday the new Board of Directors that emerged from the ballot box met at the headquarters in Piazza Ponterosso...

The presentation of the book The Last Witness. History of Secret Agent Sergio Cionci and Istrians in the Cold War was held in Verona, in the evocative setting of the CTG Conference Hall in Santa Maria in Chiavica. The initiative was sponsored by the Multimedia Documentation Center - Adriatic Archipelago of Trieste, the Adriatic Coordination Association of Bologna, the Magna Carta Foundation, LiMes Club Verona and the National Association of Venezia Giulia Dalmazia itself. The author and the protagonist of the story, Andrea Romoli (RAI journalist) and Sergio Cionci in...

A dramatic turn of events at the People's University of Trieste: the era of Silvio Delbello is over. The three days of elections for the new board of directors of the institution ended on Thursday evening, and the results of the count mark a strong change: Manuele Braico, Massimiliano Rovati, Micaela Silva and Renzo Grigolon enter the board in a single block. That is, the members of the alternative list to that of the outgoing president Delbello. "We are very satisfied, our motto "Continuity in renewal" has convinced", commented the day after Massimiliano Rovati, who acted as spokesperson for the list during the election period. Silvio Delbello takes it sportingly, but not without bitterness: "The...

On Thursday, March 13, at 11:18 am, at the Enrico and Umberto Nordio State Art Institute in Trieste, the Roman singer-songwriter Simone Cristicchi, protagonist of the show “Magazzino XNUMX”, will meet the young artists and their teachers, already enthusiastic visitors to the exhibition space in Porto Vecchio, which has been the inspiration for many of their works. The meeting is organized by the People's University of Trieste, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiumani and Dalmatian Exiles, the Association of Istrian Communities and the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia – Trieste Section, in collaboration with...

The CDM Portal presents itself to the Internet public with a completely new look and feel, but not with the traditional principles that have inspired the work of the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian Culture since its foundation. Readers will always be able to access all the contents (articles, comments, materials and news) produced and presented on the Site over the years. The web space of the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian Culture, in harmony with the documentary and multimedia purposes of the Centre itself, offers renewed tools and innovative cultural subjects...