Free Trieste

Presented to the press the opening before the EU of the dispute on Trieste and its Free Port

From left to right: Alfred Terschak (Bewegung Freies Triest – Österreich), Paolo G. Parovel (Responsible of Foreign Relations, FTM), Roberto Giurastante (President, FTM).

Annexed are a summarized press note and the documents, in English and Italian.

Trieste, June 9th, 2015. – This morning the Free Trieste Movement (FTM) presented in a press conference the opening of tan international dispute regarding the present-day Free Territory of Trieste (FTT) and its international Free Port before the European Parliament and, through it, to the European Commission, with the procedure of petition under Article 227 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU).

The present-day FTT, established with UNSC Resolution S/RES/16 (1947) and under the Treaty of Peace of Paris of February 10th, 1947 under the envisioned provisional regime of Government, since 1954 is entrusted under temporary civil administration to the Italian Government (not to the State) which, since 1957, aggregated it to the EU (then EEC) under article 355.3 TFEU, as European Territory of which a Member State has temporary foreign representation, without having sovereignty over it.

The petition denounces that the provisional Italian Government has violated international and Community law omitting to conclude the agreements needed to enforce this aggregation, likely to the procedures of adhesion and association to the EU, as well as simulating that both the Free Territory of Trieste and its international Free Port belong to the State of Italy – and, by doing so, it seriously damages both the population of the entrusted State and the States of the EU and of the World holding general or special rights over the international Free Port of  Trieste.

The document is now open for the signatures of adhesion and support by other citizens and organization of the Free Territory and of the EU. The first adhesions come from Austria, which has strong historical ties with Trieste (1382-1918) and founded its Free Port in 1719.

The document: in Italian // in English.

Annexes: 1 – 2: LINK – 3: in Italian // in English.

Press Office of the Free Trieste Movement