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The Treaty of Osimo in the press of the time
The Treaty of Osimo (November 10, 1975) is the focus of the volume "Osimo in the Press," edited by Eufemia Giuliana Budicin and published as part of a project developed by the Rome Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. The project was presented to students at the "Gian Rinaldo Carli" Gymnasium and the "Pietro Coppo" Middle School. In addition to the curator, the initiative was introduced by historian Kristjan Knez and two subject matter experts, Donatella Schürzel and Davide Rossi. The Radio...
The Treaty of Osimo was not a good agreement for Italy
Half a century after the signing of the Treaty of Osimo, the conference "The Treaty of Osimo 50 Years After the Signing: Was It a Good Agreement?" organized by the Lega Nazionale on Monday, November 10, in the Sala Maggiore of the Venezia Giulia Trieste Gorizia Chamber of Commerce offered an opportunity to reflect on the value of that agreement and its consequences, not only diplomatic but also human. The conference featured powerful testimonies from those who experienced firsthand the months and years leading up to the treaty's signing and those who, even before that, fought for the Italian cause. Historians and scholars spoke, reconstructing the long diplomatic journey and the complex issue...
The Osimo Question: The History of a Treaty, 1945–1975
The genesis of the Treaty of Osimo dates back to the years preceding the Second World War, when Fascist Italy had allied itself with the Reich, and the Peace of Paris, which in 1947 placed the country in the dock, facing harsh punishment. The eastern border paid the price, with profound territorial mutilations and the dramatic Julian-Dalmatian exodus, while the world was recovering from the rubble of war. In Venezia Giulia, a hushed battle continued to be fought, amid the deafening silence imposed by the official culture of the time. With the London Memorandum (1954) and the failure of the talks between Italy and Yugoslavia, the Treaty of... was reached in 1975.
November 10, 1975, the Treaty of Osimo
The long-standing issue of Italy's eastern border, topical until the autumn of 1954, gradually became secondary in the interests of national public opinion after the London "Memorandum of Understanding". Trieste had returned to Italy and, in the eyes of many, the game was now over. In reality, in London there had been no formal renunciation of sovereignty over "Zone B" by Italy and, above all, in the world of Istrian exiles, the flame of hope remained alight for a possible and hypothetical resumption of negotiations in the future. On the Yugoslav side, however, there was the will to arrive at a definitive arrangement of sovereignty over the parts...
Osimo, a Treaty that is still being discussed
Polemics, protests, silences, disinterest and reticence: the Treaty of Osimo, signed in the town in the Marche region on 10 November 1975, marked a controversial page in the history of the eastern Italian border. In the face of historians, observers and politicians who judged it a masterpiece in the creation of an Italian Ostpolitik in the midst of the Cold War aimed at perfecting the already good relations with communist Yugoslavia, the Treaty of Osimo was immediately opposed by the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, while in Parliament the only vain opposition came from the Italian Social Movement. If at the time the bilateral agreement between Italy and Yugoslavia...
Slovenian independence also meant the end of a communist dictatorship
The Yugoslav tanks leaving and the flags with the red star being lowered are scenes that bring to mind not only the independence of Slovenia, whose thirtieth anniversary is being celebrated these days, but also the days that the people of Trieste, Gorizia and Polesine lived on 12 June 1945, when the occupation by Tito's partisan forces ended. The events of the eastern border would still have been long before at least Gorizia and Trieste returned to all intents and purposes within the borders of the Italian Republic, while Pola itself, the rest of Istria, Fiume and Zara continued to suffer the persecution of Italianness and the liberticidal grip of the consolidation...
FederEsuli presents the issues of Adriatic Italianness to the Foreign Affairs Commission
A broad overview of the problems of Adriatic Italianity, both with regard to the indigenous presence and with reference to the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles and their descendants: this was presented by the President of the Federation of the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Prof. Attorney Giuseppe de Vergottini, guest this morning of the Foreign and Community Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. The hearing - preceded by a timely presentation made by the President of the Commission Piero Fassino on the institutional context in which the Federation operates - took place thanks to the interest of the Hon. Vito Comencini, who introduced some of the...
Italy and Croatia resolve the still open issues of the exiles
On the eve of the meeting between the Italian and Croatian Foreign Ministers, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia hopes that not only current issues will be addressed, but also those still open regarding the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, their descendants and Adriatic Italianity in general. As the successor state of Yugoslavia, Croatia still has to clarify with Italy the methods for liquidating the compensation it is entitled to, based on the Treaty of Osimo and the subsequent Rome Agreements, with reference to the abandoned assets in its portion of the former Zone B of the never-established Free Territory of...
45 years ago the Treaty of Osimo
November 10, 1975, Treaty of Osimo: if September 8 outrages you, this date should make you scream with rage by Davide Rossi and Lorenzo Salimbeni - 10/11/2020 Source: l'Adige The end of the First World War in November 1918 did not mean the immediate pacification of the Continent, tormented by nationalist claims eager to overturn the borders and by revolutionary ferments inspired by the Bolshevik revolution. Gabriele d'Annunzio's expedition to Fiume at the head of his legionaries represented for Italy the most striking appendix of the conflict, while military missions were located in various crisis areas (Carinthia, Silesia, etc.) and a significant...
Videoconference on the Treaty of Osimo
As part of the initiative "Le pause dello Spirito" curated by the Ugo Spirito and Renzo De Felice Foundation (Rome), Lorenzo Salimbeni (researcher of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and director of the 10th February Committee) held a video conference on the Treaty of Osimo, with which in 1975 Italy definitively ceded to Yugoslavia the former Zone B (districts of Capodistria and Buie) of the never-established Free Territory of Trieste. This speech can be found here...
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