BEAUTIFUL, WEALTHY VENICE WANTS TO BREAK AWAY FROM ECONOMICALLY TROUBLED ITALY

 

Wealthy Venice to hold a referendum on breaking away from Rome after years of 'propping up Italy's crime-ridden south'

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 ballot comes the same day that Crimeans are expected to vote for independence from Ukraine in a landslide ballot.  Recent polls have shown that two-thirds of Venetians are in favour of independence. Freedom from Rome would remove the heavy tax burden of propping up Italy’s poor and crime-ridden south.

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2580990/Wealthy-Venice-hold-referendum-breaking-away-Rome-years-propping-Italys-crime-ridden-south.html

 
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