Slovenes in Italy

Slovenes in Italy realise, that the State does not implement the protection bill, adopted in 2001 and that the government in 5 years’ time has not yet drafted the decree to establish the area of implementation of the protection bill. Insofar there is the bill, but nobody knows where it should be implemented. In addition the State does not implement neither some of those parts of the bill, which are not connected to the abovementioned decree. Further more we have to stress that Italy still has not ratified the European Charter for Regional of minority languages, even if it has been signed more than five years ago.

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Cases of intolerance towards Slovene minority

The Slovenes in Italy have lived here for almost 14 centuries: in the Province of Trieste, in the Province of Gorizia, in the Commune of Udine in the Natisone valleys, in the valley of Torre, Resia and Canale. After the Second World War a great number of Slovenes emigrated to the lowland of Friuli because of economic reasons.

The presence of the Slovene minority in Italy in all the three Provinces is fully legally acknowledged only by the law n. 38 from the year 2001, but is unfortunately still mainly ignored. The Slovenes in the Province of Trieste were legally protected on the basis of the London Memorandum, signed in 1954, and the rights for the Slovenes in the Province of Gorizia were recognised by the agreement, signed in 1947.

Defaced Slovene inscriptions on the Charst of Trieste. Besmeared are usually signposts, monuments of the Slovene Liberation Front and sometimes also the tombstones on the cemeteries. Also after the admission of Slovenija in the European Community the cases of intolerance towards the Slovene minority continue. The smutted Slovene place name signs are usually connected with the fascist and nazi simbols, that clearly show the authorship of vandalism.
The non-implementation by the right wing italian Parlament of the law for the Slovene minority in Italy 38/01 actually supports the intolerance towards the Slovene minority.

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