3 May 2024

The island of Ventotene, where hundreds of antifascists were interned by the Mussolini regime before and during the Second World War, became a laboratory for new ideas of peace and justice. It represents the symbolic birthpalce of a united Europe. In occasion of the twentieth anniversay of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, dr. Borut Klabjan (together with dr. Gorazd Bajc), held a lecture on the rise of fascism and the importance of cooperation in postwar Europe. The lecture was organized by the Slovenian Embassy in Rome, and the Municipality of Ventotene, and it took place in the library of Ventotene on May 3rd, 2024.