Through its project AestOvest Osservatorio sui Balcani focuses on the so-called “mobile border” which in the past was a symbol of division but now represents an opportunity of relationship. An on-line section and a DVD for the schools [project]
Autochthonous minorities living around the Alpine arch in Italy benefit from strong legal protection. The Slovene minority is the least protected among these. The slowness in guaranteeing its rights is due to deep- rooted historic factors[Italiano]
[Andrea Rossini]The Slovene minority in Italy and the Italian one in Slovenia after Ljubljana’s entry into the European Union (EU). An interview with Bojan Brezigar, a journalist and advisor to outgoing Foreign Minister, Dimitrij Rupelj[Italiano]
[Anita Clara]It is a publication dedicated to the frontier literature. It was born in Friuli Venezia Giulia and after 11 paper issues it moved on the web. An interview with Mauro Daltin, one of its founders[Italiano]
[Gian Matteo Apuzzo]In Trieste, history has a problem being history. It is often a myth, quite often even a rite. If the past could actually produce history in this land, Trieste could make a step forward. And it could think without fear, that it has always been a city of the border[Italiano]
[Davide Sighele]Renzo Nicolini teaches both in Trieste and Buje, in Istria. He has an insightful point of view on education alongside the border which has changed a lot over recent years.
An interview [Italiano]
[Davide Sighele]One of her best known novels is “Best Friends” [Amiche per la pelle], a story of four migrant women in Trieste. But there is also a fifth real actor in the story. An interview with the writer Laila Wadia[Italiano]
[Davide Sighele]It is the daily of the Slovene minority in Italy. For years it has been the paper “of the border”. Now it is in the heart of new Europe and it covers a rapidly changing world. Its story is told by one of its reporters. An interview with Breda Pahor[Italiano]
[Davide Sighele]Melita Richter is a sociologist and cultural mediator. Over the last years she has implemented many projects related to the border between Italy and the Balkans. Their participants have been high school boys and girls. Our interview[Italiano]
[Roberta Bertoldi]They sing in Friulan, Slovene, Italian, and Spanish. And they want to recuperate what others throw away. We met with Mauro “Puntar” Punteri, singer of the Gorizia band Kosovni Odpadki[Italiano]
[Gian Matteo Apuzzo]''For us, the entry into the Schengen area was the real entry into the European Union''. The mayor of Nova Gorica talks about the border region where the border is no more. An interview[Italiano]
A letter by Paolo Rumiz to President Napolitano. A careful reflection about where enlargement stopped and the many related unresolved tangles from the twentieth century. While Italy remains reserved about its past[Italiano]
[Francesca Vanoni]During the 80s a group of intellectuals proponed the idea of Istrian identity based on multilingualism and multiculturalism. One of them was Ivan Jakovcic, at present president of the Region of Istria[Italiano]
[Gian Matteo Apuzzo]The efforts of Gorizia and Nova Gorica to construct a “common city” which rises beyond divisions created by the border have resulted in cross-border service, European projects, and missed opportunities[Italiano]
[Gian Matteo Apuzzo]Although separated by the Iron Curtain, by turning themselves into a testing ground, Gorizia and Nova Gorica have over the years become a symbol of integration. How does cooperation proceed after the fall of the border? The first of three articles[Italiano]
[Chiara Sighele]From 1993 to 2000 Italian and Slovene scholars have worked on a volume about the relations between their two countries. Eight years have passed but the Commission’s work has not yet been properly distributed[Italiano]
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