*Ø* Blogmanac | The last wall dividing East and West comes down
Peter Popham in Rome
13 February
"The last wall dividing Eastern and Western Europe is coming down. On the stroke of 10.30 yesterday morning, the mayors of Gorizia in Italy and Nova Gorica in Slovenia, divided since 1947, met at the border and in a brief ceremony inaugurated the wall's demolition.
"This is the far north-eastern corner of Italy, fought over for centuries by Italians, Austrians and Slovenes, invaded by Romans, Huns, Goths, Lombards, Nazis and even (in a little-known alliance with the Nazis) Cossacks. As long as Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union remained intact, Italy feared that Gorizia could become the entry point of a Soviet invasion.
"But now Slovenia is entering the EU, and on the eve of that event, at midnight on 30 April, the president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, will strike a symbolic blow to the wall with a pickaxe, to mark the beginning of a new era."
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Peter Popham in Rome
13 February
"The last wall dividing Eastern and Western Europe is coming down. On the stroke of 10.30 yesterday morning, the mayors of Gorizia in Italy and Nova Gorica in Slovenia, divided since 1947, met at the border and in a brief ceremony inaugurated the wall's demolition.
"This is the far north-eastern corner of Italy, fought over for centuries by Italians, Austrians and Slovenes, invaded by Romans, Huns, Goths, Lombards, Nazis and even (in a little-known alliance with the Nazis) Cossacks. As long as Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union remained intact, Italy feared that Gorizia could become the entry point of a Soviet invasion.
"But now Slovenia is entering the EU, and on the eve of that event, at midnight on 30 April, the president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, will strike a symbolic blow to the wall with a pickaxe, to mark the beginning of a new era."
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