Italy, Slovenia and Croatia reconcile

The presidents of Slovenia, Italy and Croatia met on Tuesday in the Italian city of Trieste for a reconciliatory meeting. They commemorated the burning down of the "National House", the community hall of Trieste's Slovenes, by Italian fascists and visited a memorial dedicated to the Italian expellees from Istria, Rijeka and Dalamatia. The daily Delo praises this political gesture: "The event had great symbolic power and could hail the dawn of a new era. When the Italian President Napolitano stood in front of the National House ninety years after it was burnt down and the national anthem was played straight after the Italian and Croatian anthems the Slovenians applauded enthusiastically. For the Slovenians present on this occasion all the political analyses and potential criticism of the meeting in Trieste melted into the background. They made the effort to look to the future without forgetting the bad things in the past."

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