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Venice votes to split from Italy as 89% of the city's residents opt to form a new independent state
Daily Mail ^ | 03/23/2014 | By HANNAH ROBERTS IN ROME

Posted on 03/23/2014 4:45:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Venetians have voted overwhelmingly for their own sovereign state in a ‘referendum’ on independence from Italy.

Inspired by Scotland’s separatist ambitions, 89 per cent of the residents of the lagoon city and its surrounding area, opted to break away from Italy in an unofficial ballot.

The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

The floating city has only been part of Italy for 150 years. The 1000 year–old democratic Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, was quashed by Napoleon and was subsumed into Italy in 1866.

Wealthy Venetians, under mounting financial pressure in the economic crisis, have rallied in their thousands, after growing tired of supporting Italy’s poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south, through high taxation.

Activists have been working closely with the SNP on their joint agendas, even travelling to Scotland alongside Catalonians and Basque separatists to take part in pro independence rallies.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: autonomy; basques; catalonia; europeanunion; friuliveneziagiulia; independence; italy; lombardy; repubblicaveneta; scotland; secession; spain; taxhaven; trentino; unitedkingdom; veneto; venice
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah, if the country worked the way it was designed to, a federation of States with DC limited to a handful of tasks, this would not be an issue...


61 posted on 03/23/2014 8:27:19 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: goldstategop

Oh, did we miss the invasion of Venice?
Did the Venice media black out all opposition?
Did the ballot only have 2 yes options without a no?

Your shilling for Putin is nauseating.


62 posted on 03/23/2014 8:32:08 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: VanDeKoik
Given that Venice is sinking roughly 14 inches per year, I should say that it was more likely that Venice could become another Atlantis.

It's very difficult to keep track of one's chips underwater, ne c'est pas?

63 posted on 03/23/2014 8:35:57 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: SeekAndFind
I've heard of this, and it's going nowhere. The people of California always end up taking the Blue Pill...


64 posted on 03/23/2014 9:15:22 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Ann Archy
Wow!! We will be in Venice in 4 weeks and 6 weeks....twice....hope there’s no RIOTING!! I HATE when gondolas CLASH!!

It is non-binding, so nothing will happen because of this. But it will start the ball rolling in a lot of places.

65 posted on 03/23/2014 10:15:05 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: goldstategop
How is this massive super-majority in Venice any different?

Venice wasn't invaded by a foreign country with agents steering the outcome to a foregone conclusion. They also probably had a "no" option to check off on the ballot.

66 posted on 03/23/2014 10:18:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mercat

“My complaint was that they didn’t explain the sewage system. We decided that they didn’t have one. Smelly indeed.”’

The tour guide didn;t explain that either LOL


67 posted on 03/23/2014 11:15:01 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: SAJ
Given that Venice is sinking roughly 14 inches per year, I should say that it was more likely that Venice could become another Atlantis.

The official measurement is 3 centimeters a century.

68 posted on 03/23/2014 11:41:31 PM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage (I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with an exciting new appetizer.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Each (except for Scotland and Catalan) is a separate issue, not related to the other. Catalan is quite a distinct ethnicity, part of the "ethnicities" of Spain. It is distinct from the Castilian-Aragonese parts

Ditto Scotland

Venice looks like more of an economic thing -- I've not seen any real difference

69 posted on 03/24/2014 12:01:31 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Ah, good. Its sinking has slowed since our 1975 textbook was published. Of course, “official” statistics are not exactly the most trustworthy, now are they?


70 posted on 03/24/2014 1:49:13 AM PDT by SAJ
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To: wideawake

So you’re not a fan of Garibaldi and Cavour etc...?


71 posted on 03/26/2014 8:04:15 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
They were basically anticlerical Jacobins.

More moderate in their views than the originals, but they effectively imposed Italian nationalism on the country - it wasn't much of a grassroots movement.

72 posted on 03/26/2014 8:39:28 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Were the Italians better off under the Austrian yoke though? I’ve read much on Verdi (the composer) who was so intimately involved with the Risorgimento and the position of every day Italians doesn’t seem all that enviable up until then.


73 posted on 03/26/2014 9:34:02 AM PDT by Borges
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