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Phase 2: Gorizia border desk

5/22/2020, 2:32:47 PM


A single desk, cut in half by a net due to the closure of the borders: it is the symbolic image of the demonstration action of the mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna, and the first citizen of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Klemen Miklavic, who they sat ... (ANSA)

(ANSA) - GORIZIA, MAY 22 - A single desk, cut half by a net due to the closure of the borders: it is the symbolic image of the demonstration action of the mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna, and the first citizen of Nova Gorica (Slovenia ), Klemen Miklavic, who sat at the same table in Piazza Transalpina - an area half Italian and half Slovenian, which in recent months has been divided by a network due to the spread of the coronavirus - to talk about Europe.
   "While in Brussels the leaders of the European countries fight over everything, borders and, on the management of the virus, everyone goes for it, the mayors of Gorizia and Nova Gorica - they say - continue to work together to build a true Europe, that of citizens and families "." Both I and my colleague Miklavic - Ziberna points out - we shared thoughts, information and actions, also trying to make the igoverni talk, to concert the choices on the closure of the border.
   Unfortunately there is no listening but we go on " .