Nova Gorica, Gorizia merging public transport schedules in 2025
Trieste, 22 March - Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Friuli Venezia Giulia President Massimiliano Fedriga signed on Friday an agreement on cross-border public transport for the neighbouring towns of Gorizia and Nova Gorica as they co-chaired a session of a Slovenia-Friuli Venezia Giulia committee that also discussed minority representation in the region's legislature.
Trieste, Italy
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Friuli Venezia Giulia President Massimiliano Fedriga sign an agreement on cross-border public transport for Nova Gorica and Gorizia.
Photo: Bojan Kralj/STA
Trieste, Italy
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Friuli Venezia Giulia President Massimiliano Fedriga sign an agreement on cross-border public transport for Nova Gorica and Gorizia at the palace of the regional government.
Photo: Bojan Kralj/STA
Trieste, Italy
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Friuli Venezia Giulia President Massimiliano Fedriga sign an agreement on cross-border public transport for Nova Gorica and Gorizia.
Photo: Bojan Kralj/STA
The agreement signed by Fajon and Fedriga entails a shared bus time table for the two border towns for next year, when they will be jointly hosting the European Capital of Culture in 2025. Fajon said that the agreement will benefit the locals but also tourists.
Following the meeting of the mixed committee, the Slovenian foreign minister also welcomed efforts by the government of Friuli Venezia Giulia to introduce a non-partisan representative for the Slovenian minority in the regional council.
Fedriga meanwhile said that the meeting discussed launching the process for a joint candidacy of Italy, Austria and Slovenia for the 2034 Winter Olympics.
The committee also discussed cross-border emergency medical care, protection against natural disasters, and cooperation in research and development, according to Fajon.
She expressed hope that joint police patrols, discussed yesterday by the Slovenian, Italian and Croatian interior ministers, would allow the abolishment of border checks on internal Schengen borders soon.
In addition to co-chairing the mixed committee, Fajon and Fedriga held a bilateral meeting, visited the National Hall, a cultural centre of the Slovenian minority in Trieste, and saw an exhibition on Slovenians in Italy.
The mixed committee was established in 2015 and has been meeting once a year, while individual groups that make up the body work throughout the year.
According to the Slovenian Foreign Ministry, the committee is a framework within which the relevant government departments in Ljubljana and Trieste address issues that affect people on both sides of the border.