(July 8, 2016) Friuli Venezia Giulia has a leading role in the integration of the Balkans and to implement among those nations economic relations from which to develop a way to definitively overcome divisions and conflicts which have involved this area. As a witness to the central role of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region is president Debora Serracchiani and Italian Ambassador in Belgrade Giuseppe Manzo. The recent Western Balkan summit on July 4th in Paris attended by Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, offered a push to Serracchiani and Manzo to reaffirm the necessity of discuss the Eastern Balkan nations with the European. A discussion that is based on aspects of development, infrastructure, youth mobility and reforms. One of the possible contexts in which Friuli Venezia Giulia could offer its know-how is culture. Seracchiani and the Ambassador agree, for example, that the capital cities in the Balkan region, museums existent prior to the dissolution of ex-Yugoslavia are poorly accessible.
