The question of the double passport, proposed by the Austrian government to the inhabitants of Trentino-Alto Adige in German and Ladin language assumes, as always in Italy, the outlines of the useless bar fight; divided between those in favor and against the press organs and the commentators from social networks they struggle, with arguments, sometimes original, sometimes ridiculous to support this or that part, too often ignoring some fixed points such as: the incontrovertibility of historical reality, the now repeatedly reiterated theme of the overlapping of competences between national states, regional realities and provincial, ethnic linguistic community and European Union and finally errors in the management of the post-war phases, with particular regard, in this case, to the peace treaties that followed the 1 ° and the 2 ° world conflict.
In the Centenary of Vittorio Veneto, just a few months after the 4 November celebrations, it seems that the Austrian foreign policy choices have something pretentious, a paradoxical and anti-historical revenge with the blows of diplomatic provocations and tweet, so the Schutzen have resumed the musket and instead of the lead it seems they are determined to throw passports, double to say it all, because in the end the Trentino assistance model is too greedy to be completely abandoned in the name of old claims and new uncertain adhesions, well yes, let's do the Italians when it's time for help and the Germans on holiday.
As mentioned, however, not all faults can be attributed to former subjects of Checco Beppe, nor do you intend to take sides of this or that faction, in fact, while the Austrians, in the name and on behalf of the South Tyrolean, invoke aloud the diplomatic recognition of South Tyrolean Germanism, however, how to blame him, even if only from an aesthetic and linguistic point of view, the Italian ultranationalists from the keyboard appeal to somewhat confused historical reasons, whose refutation was in fact the first starting point for the realization of this reflection.
"I was taught at school that Italy defended itself from the invading Austrian." Yesterday an unidentified author of books on 24 radio was thundering. Bad teachers we could say, but the most serious thing, probably in good faith and therefore ignorant ignorant trainers of informers of insipienze.
Italy, an ally of Austria Hungary and Germany from the 1882 to the 1914 in the famous Triple Alliance (the union is strength - Viribus Unitis), denounced the same in the 1915 and after having secretly signed the London Pact, will cross the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire declaring war in Vienna and waiting for the 1916 to make enemies even the Germans.
In short, our beloved radio writer has had its bad teachers, it is understood that the reasons acquired on the battlefield are those that then turn into indisputable truth, but following the treaties of Versailles of 1919 did not go so, the Tyrolean, Already refractory to the Austrian government, worse endured the Italian reasons and with a mentality soaked of independence and revolt, typical of the mountain populations, poorly digested the Italian dominion and subsequently also the possibility of being annexed to the Germanic Reich.
People who want to be on their own? Probably yes, but also extremely capable of political exploitation that alternated opposition to the Austrian Empire, Italy and Nazi Germany, to the exploitation of their minority-majority status first through the Hitler-Mussolini agreement on the option of citizenship and subsequently with the De Gasperi - Gruber treaty.
If the historical question becomes entangled it becomes even more the geographical ethnic one, in this case sharing, even only intellectually, the Austrian proposal is really tiring, we must compare with the criteria of assigning the much-vaunted double passport and we would wonder if the linguistic dimension is sufficient to recognize a right of citizenship, or if the Italian-speaking South Tyrolean descendants of families already subject to the Emperor of Austria may claim the same diplomatic pass, then the Ladin communities should not be forgotten. In this case it is a population of Latin ancestry, good and then Mediterranean settled in Roman times in the Alpine valleys and then what do we do about the struggle without quarter between Veneto and Trentino about the fate of Cortina and Asiago with their PDO products and their IMUs?
The United Europe was designed to overcome the geographical ethnic reasons between the causes of two disastrous world wars, but here they are the European institutions, giant and immovable as leviathans without energy, to assist impassive interstate, inter-provincial and inter-regional disputes, without even trying a rag of mediation, who knows what they think counters CFSP and its very expensive staff, will be too busy to understand why Austria closes the Brenner to the Italian trucks and then wants to assign to the very Italian Trentino the passport of Vienna, to do what then? To go to Rimini or Lignano?
Excluding the fact that Italy invaded Austria-Hungary in the 1915, that the South Tyrolean nationalists are stubborn and sometimes unreasonable and that the ruling classes of Italy and Austria have nothing better to think about, perhaps it would be the case overcoming such absurd positions in the name of three concepts such as knowledge, cooperation, sharing, yes because if I know I can operate in a conscious and shared way and then, even accepting the ethnic reasons and the ancestral ties of a territory and its population that these aspects remain relegated to the field of ethnography and humanistic knowledge, without ever leading to anachronistic and silly irredentism.
Only a united Europe can be a credible world player from a diplomatic and commercial point of view, other solutions can not be seen, so that the energies are devised in the direction of higher goals, without running into useless and foolish boutade electoral or propaganda and if some inhabitants of Vipiteno or Bolzano want the Austrian passport to move to Innsbruck, no one will miss it.
AP
