By 2025-02-03T15:34:00+00:00 ITALY: The unusual tramway which links Trieste with Villa Opicina via a cable-hauled incline has reopened after being suspended in 2016 Two sections of conventional metre-gauge tramway are linked by an incline from Piazza Scorcola at 17 m above sea level to Vetta Scorcola at 177 m above sea level Trams are propelled up the hill and braked on the downhill run by cable-hauled tractor cars This funicular system replaced rack operation which was used from the opening in 1902 until 1928 The 5·2 km line had coexisted with the city’s urban tramway network which closed in 1970 services were suspended after a head-on collision in August 2016 and the subsequent modernisation works were delayed by bureaucratic hurdles The first departure on the reopened line at 06.51 on February 2 was crowded with passengers despite the absence of an official celebration with a second being used as counterweight on the funicular section The other trams will return to services as work is completed to upgrade their brakes Trieste Trasporti is to operate nine services each way per day until February 16 then 19 until March 2 before increasing to a full service of 29 per day Services are initially running from Piazza Dalmatia a short distance from the Piazza Oberdan terminus which is to be refurbished ITALY: Arriva has begun offering its Glimble mobility-as-a-service platform in Trieste ‘We want to encourage people to view buses bikes and other modes of transport as a single network rather than separate services’ Site powered by Webvision Cloud due to works scheduled to be carried out on the Karavanke Tunnel (on the Slovenia – Austrian border) part of the Koper – Villach traffic has been diverted via Villa Opicina/Tarvisio generating a 32% increase in traffic on the Italian-Slovenian border crossing with consequent problems with the management of the Villa Opicina plant and the terminals and plants located in the areas on both sides of the border In order to better handle these difficulties and at the same time address the major pre-existing problems of the cross border section the Italian and Slovenian Infrastructure Managers established a task force coordinated by the Mediterranean Rail Freight Corridor The objectives of the Villa Opicina Task Force - which is still operational - are the following: the joint monitoring of the programming and operational management of freight traffic the sharing of the cross-border traffic management rules (to prevent the congestion of the plant with consequent traffic interruptions) and the establishment of a dialogue with Railway undertakings  for shared activities aimed at improving the punctuality at the cross border section The initial results achieved include the following: more efficient cooperation between the two infrastructure managers and proactive management of relations with the national railway undertakings in order to ensure compliance with the communication flows the sharing of a common monitoring method (with the activation of a dedicated database in the cloud) and the establishment of an emergency procedure for the management of any potential traffic jams at the cross border section following any prolonged stops on the tracks The constant monitoring and regular dialogue between the infrastructure managers carried out on a weekly basis have stabilized the emergency situation and have restored a punctuality level comparable to that of the previous year thus allowing almost all the extraordinary trains to be handled in a satisfactory manner despite the number of ordinary trains in circulation has almost doubled Subsequent actions were focused on the active involvement of railway undertakings by raising awareness of the need to respect the existing planning and the constant exchange of information between the partner companies and the infrastructure managers where each railway undertaking’s’ specific issues were explored took place and a plenary meeting where the results of the previous meetings were shared and the next steps to be taken were decided the task force grouped the feedbacks that it received by problem and by priority and even collected proposals for potential improvement measures The next steps include the organization of regular round table meetings with  railway undertakings  in order to ensure increasingly robust and organic cooperation among all the railway system’s stakeholders This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page A railway route connecting three countries The entire journey through tourist locations takes 2 hours The Slovenian Railways has launched a railway route passing through 8 cities in three countries The entire journey takes 2 hours and costs from 8 euros one way The train will operate daily until September 30 The train departs from the port city of Trieste in northeastern Italy then stops at four stations in Slovenia - Sežana the train travels to the station in Rijeka a suburb of Trieste – departure at 7:50 a.m. The route is ideal for a budget-friendly weekend getaway since you can disembark at one of the stations you can rent an electric bicycle and ride along forest paths passengers can spend the night at the Opatija resort with Rococo-style villas and grand hotels overlooking the Adriatic Sea and a 19th-century theater adorned by Gustav Klimt We also wrote about passengers on trains in Spain being able to travel for 7 euros The promotional price will apply to popular routes of the budget railway company Avlo Brilliant trips in vintage and modern carriages take our tipsters to beaches Winning trip: A wee dram on a pub tram, HelsinkiHelsinki has a small and sensible tram system, except for the wonderful SpåraKoff “pub” tram: a bright red single carriage that loops around the city serving mostly beer and “long drink” (gin and grapefruit soda; please It covers most of the usual sights in town and without any annoying commentary The seats aren’t particularly comfy and the decor is mostly wood but you’re on a tram so already having the best afternoon/evening of the week drinks are reasonably priced at less than €8 a pint and there’s an ever-changing wine list Photograph: agefotostock/AlamyThe trams on Hong Kong Island are affectionately known as “ding dings” and run down the main road arteries for more than 13km To drift along this urban canyon’s length takes about two hours and costs 25p From the windows of towering residential monoliths in every pastel shade satellite dishes and air con units strain outwards for light cardboard trolleys and shining automobilia are shunted through the narrow streets From the slightest cracks jungle trees leap up Float by the Bank of China and HSBC towers There’s no better way to relax in the world’s most manic city.Culann Robinson followed by beautiful food and wine in one of Trieste’s old squares.Jennifer Cutler this old-fashioned experience is well worth the money.Hamish Lister which offers hikers and vintage tram enthusiasts alike a well-earned beer or Photograph: John Keates/AlamyCatch the yellow line to Meadowhall for £4.60 return. There’s a beautiful vista of Sheffield after Fitzalan Square as you ride over the viaduct cross the footbridge over the canal for another gorgeous view before heading down Stroll along the Sheffield and Tinsley canal for as long as you like for a peaceful and picturesque walk through nature cutting through the old industrial heartland of Sheffield Meadowhall South or even Rotherham to return home all stops accessible via the canal.Jack Evans Photograph: toxawww/Getty ImagesPorto has a few beautiful old reconditioned trams in operation on routes 1 which has a stunningly scenic route from Rebeira to Foz overlooking the Douro River the whole way The route does get busy and runs roughly every half an hour You can go earlier in the day or wait for the next one or a bit more return – you can use contactless to pay on the tram When at Foz it’s lovely to watch the mighty waves crash and admire the beautiful lighthouse.Joy Photograph: Ariadne Van Zandbergen/AlamyThis ancient city’s extensive tram routes built in the second half of the 19th century and electrified in 1902 For 5p one can have a 90-minute trip through the old areas of the city including the harbours and out to the eastern suburbs Each carriage has its own conductor and the first one in the blue tram is reserved for women The conductor squeezes his way through the passengers issuing tickets the business of Alexandria is conducted on If you want to see life slowly in one of the oldest cities in the world Every week we ask our readers for recommendations from their travels. A selection of tips will be featured online and may appear in print. To enter the latest competition visit the readers' tips homepage taking you round the major city landmarks – a great introduction to this lovely city.Fi Photograph: Gartland/AlamySeaton’s vintage three-mile tramway is dinky in stature but it’s worth taking this trip in the Devon countryside The narrow gauge line runs classic electric tramcars at half to two-thirds scale The trams moved in after Beeching closed the Seaton branch line in the 1960s and the route now transports holidaymakers and enthusiasts inland to Colyton Seaton Wetlands nature reserve and the River Coly so the views change with the seasons and it’s worth bringing your binoculars if you like spotting birds You can also book a driving experience where you can ring the bell yourself Fares are £12 and £9.60 (children) but there are other rates for families.Rachel Henson This article was amended on 24 March 2022 to include a photograph of Hong Kong “ding dings” Several readers have pointed out in the comments below that the photograph first included was of a Hong Kong Peak Tram and a new coffee language: how to travel well in Italy’s polyglot port state Don’t expect to (only) speak Italian. Trieste, right on Italy’s border with Slovenia, has changed hands several times in its 2,000-year history. It’s been an Austrian Habsburg port, the site of a Napoleonic occupation, and even, briefly, an independent city-state. Both Slovene and Italian are widely spoken, and in Karst villages outside Trieste But triestinà—the city’s wildly inventive cosmopolitan dialect influenced by the city’s many conquerors—is a language in itself you don’t “accendere una sigaretta,” as in traditional Italian but “impizar un’ spagnoletto.” As a half-Italian half-American with an astoundingly confused cultural background I find that Trieste’s gleeful polyphony feels like home I first came to Trieste in 2010 for a travel story then to cover the Triestine independence movement then because wherever I was going in Central Europe or Northern Italy it seemed that Trieste—a bus or train ride away from so many other capitals—kept calling me back Trieste’s historic center is almost ostentatiously grand with snowy imperial Austrian buildings and the art nouveau borsa (stock exchange) but the area around the train station (which is also where airport buses drop off passengers) is singularly unprepossessing ostensibly safe underpass) and a proliferation of discount clothing stores make the walk between Trieste’s railway station and its Old Town one of the least auspicious in Italy (Many of the city’s cheaper hostels and B&Bs are here popular with groups of single men seeking work in the port are seedier than others.) But 10 minutes on foot into the city center and you’re sipping cocktails on the waterfront Make sure you know what you’re getting: an espresso here is a nero Pro tip: order your coffee “in B” to get a glass “nero in B.” Some people prefer the glass because it lets them enjoy the color of the coffee drinking from the thinner rim makes the coffee taste better where you can elbow your way past workers and professors alike for Central European cured meats and cheeses Try the jota (Slovene for “soup”) with slow-simmered pork and you’ll find people clutching the sides of buildings it comes savagely: houses in Trieste and surrounding towns often have stones on the roofs to prevent tiles from being taken by the wind and the city puts up chains or ropes to serve as railings during particularly bad storms Trieste has a serious aperitivo culture: order a drink in the late afternoon and you’ll get a host of snacks from a meager handful of peanuts to a full meat-and-cheese spread The best place for an aperitivo in Trieste is quite literally on the city’s Grand Canal where Caffé Rossini’s outdoor seating spills over onto a floating raft but for something quintessentially Triestine try the hugo (pronounced “ugo”): a blend of elderflower Don’t confuse your independence groups. Like many cities on the Istrian peninsula, Trieste has had its fair share of independence movements Two of them—rival groups Free Territory of Trieste and Trieste Libera—are currently active with competing flags and banners lining the city center which was briefly granted Free Territory status after the Second World War before being returned to Italy in 1954 is under unlawful Italian occupation and envision this polyglot culturally diverse port state as an autonomous city-state along the lines of an Adriatic Singapore—although of the two Free Territory of Trieste is more focused on reclaiming the Croatian and Slovene parts of the former independent city-state but some of the most extraordinary sights in the region are a bus ride away a 20-minute bus journey from Trieste Centrale station has one of the region’s most beautiful rock beaches as well as the start of the cliffside Rainer Maria Rilke path which inspired the poet’s “Duino Elegies.” Inland the village of Aquileia—now a UNESCO World Heritage site—was once one of the largest cities in ancient Rome and houses a fifth-century basilica and 10th-century Gothic cathedral Trieste may not have the museums of a Florence or a Rome but what it lacks in pinocotecas it makes up for in palaces the cream-colored Miramare Castle was once home to Maximilian the ill-fated brother of Kaiser Franz-Joseph the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s last real leader (Maximilian was executed after a botched attempt to establish the Habsburg dynasty in Mexico.) The seaside complex is now a museum there’s the less-visited but no less stunning Duino Castle and the principessa is a local fixture in village life Monday is closing day for most museums in Italy but Trieste and its environs operate on their own idiosyncratic timetables The Revoltella Museum—known for its 19th-century fine arts collection—and the seaside Duino Castle but only open from 1 pm all other days except Sunday And the historic villa at the Sartorio Museum is closed Monday open exclusively mornings Tuesday through Thursday and exclusively afternoons Thursday through Sunday these country farmhouse taverns—named for the eight days each year that peasants were traditionally allowed to sell their wares under old imperial decrees—are the best place to sample Slovenian Karst fare (many of Trieste’s surrounding villages are still primarily Slovene-speaking) There’s rarely a menu: just turn up and ask for a pitcher of local wine and whatever meats and cheeses are available (Plan ahead: while Osmicas are open for more than eight days to take one of Italy’s most extraordinary methods of public transport: a combination tram-funicular that links central Trieste with the village of Villa Opicina this historic route offers some of the best views of Trieste and the surrounding sea and take the panoramic three-mile Napoleon walk along the limestone Karst plateau Trieste’s proximity to the Slovenian border (to say nothing of nearby Croatia) make it an ideal jumping-off point for international day trips Croatians and Slovenes come into Trieste to do their shopping.) Drive an hour to the Croatian hill town of Groznjan or take the daily 30-minute hydrofoil to the minute Baroque Slovenian town of Piran where prices for gargantuan portions of seafood buzhara (stew) are about half what they are across the border Florence may be the city of visual artists but Trieste is easily Italy’s literary capital James Joyce lived here (there’s a statue of him as did travel writer Sir Richard Francis Burton and Italian modernist Italo Svevo This literary heritage is well preserved: bookstore-café San Marco popular with university students and professors alike runs regular salons in English and Italian but almost nobody knows about the equally striking culturally syncretic traditions of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region the town of Muggia (15 minutes’ drive from Trieste) and its surrounding villages in the Karst highlands host wild raucous carnival celebrations each February Muggia’s—which dates back to 1420—is known for biting political satire and elaborate floats in the Slovene-speaking mountain village of Resia where villagers don both “beautiful” and “ugly” masks and ritually burn the Babac puppet to purge the excesses of carnival Have an evening aperitivo in the elaborate waterfront Piazza Unità d’Italia at Caffé degli Specchi or Harry’s Bar at the Duchi D’Aosta Hotel then take a stroll along the Rive—the waterfront—along with the rest of Trieste You might pass a live open-air rock concert in front of the Verdi Theatre or meet a few tango dancers gliding along the waterfront Join our newsletter to get exclusives on where our correspondents travel Gambling on change in Georgia’s most surreal city Getting lost in Stone Town and getting on Swahili time: smart travel on the Spice Islands Native son and international chef José Andrés’s guide to traveling and living well in his home terroir football won’t easily mend the chasms created by mortars and massacres Why visit one country when you could visit three Hop aboard this nifty new train route and have yourself a rail-y good summer adventure I know that the concept of a train ticket that doesn’t resemble the cost of a small mortgage seems pretty out of reach for us Brits at the moment But it turns out that cheap-and-cheerful train travel does actually still exist – if you head to a different country (or three) First built 150 years ago by the Austro-Hungarian empire this train line is certainly no stranger to ferrying adventure-seekers between Italy and Croatia The five-hour version of the route closed over 30 years ago but it’s been dusted off for the summer and is well-and-truly back on track The new-and-improved route takes just two hours and has eight stops along the way the Stadler electric locomotive begins its daily journey in the Italian city of Trieste Passengers can hop aboard at Villa Opicina station at 7.50am and be in a whole new country just ten minutes later The first stop of the trip is a little town on the Slovenian border the train calls at three more Slovenian stops – Divača The final stops of the journey are the Croatian towns of Šapjane and the train pulls in to its final destination The daily return train leaves Rijeka at 6.25pm and arrives back at Villa Opicina at 8.40pm Passengers can opt to do the whole journey in one hopping on-and-off at various stops along the way adult tickets start at €8 (£6.88) each way but individual tickets for each leg of the journey can be bought if you’re planning to stop off on route This super handy service is already in service and is currently set to run until September 30 but there’s potential for the route to become permanent in the future If you need me; you’ll find me scouring the internet for cheap flights to Trieste Find out more and plan your European adventure here Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Croatia the daily service glides through Slovenia to connect two of Central Europe's key ports A new international rail link now allows passengers to travel from the Italian border through Slovenia to Rijeka for only €8 The daily service leaves the frontier station of Villa Opicina directly linked by local bus with nearby Trieste and heads across lush countryside to Croatia’s main port and transport hub The Slovenian-run train has space for bicycles and prams and can welcome travellers with reduced mobility The train then makes its way back to the Slovenian-Italian border from Rijeka at 6.25pm The service runs right through spring and summer until the end of September tickets are available at individual stations The initiative is part of the SUSTANCE project to provide affordable connectivity across borders in Central Europe and promote sustainability. There will also be weekend trains to Sopron, on the Austro-Hungarian border, and a feasibility study carried out on rail connections with Pula. facebooktwitterinstagramAbout us The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Please log in here to leave a comment Šapić's ownership of the villa can be seen in the extract from the Italian cadastre obtained by BIRN and the weekly "Vreme" but not in the property and income register of the Serbian Agency for the Prevention of Corruption to which public officials are required to report all changes in their property status The surface area of ​​neither of the two real estate properties that this public official reported to the agency does not correspond to the surface area of ​​Šapić's Trieste villa he reported to the agency that he owns two apartments - 150 and 98 square meters while the villa in Opičina is significantly larger It is known from the Italian cadastral document that Šapić's villa has a total area of ​​almost 400 square meters and from the purchase agreement from May 2018 that he paid 820.000 euros for the property The contract also states that Šapić had a residence at another address in Trieste at that time on the basis of which he could take advantage of the legal possibility of tax benefits better known in Italy as "first home" benefits This possibility of tax reduction when buying real estate can be used by a person who is not the owner of another real estate in the municipality where he buys the real estate as well as if he already resides in the municipality where he buys the building a member of the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration tells "Vreme" and BIRN that only a foreigner who lives in the place where he applied and who must show his intention to stay there permanently can get a residence in Italy is a condition in order to use the tax credit for the first house Just these few pieces of information raise a number of questions First - why did the public official Šapić not fulfill his legal obligation and report his Italian villa to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption And secondly - on what basis did Šapić get a residence in Trieste since in 2018 (and before that) he lived in Belgrade and performed the public job of president of the Municipality of New Belgrade We tried to find out the answers to these and many other questions from Italian institutions and sources in cooperation with colleagues from the Trieste editorial office "Il Piccolo" We tried to discuss everything with Mayor Šapić but he did not answer our phone calls or the questions we sent him in writing In the land registers of the Trieste municipality department it is recorded that Aleksandar Šapić was born on June 1 1978 in Yugoslavia and that he is the owner of four properties on Strada Nuova per Opičina The first property is a villa with a gross area of ​​399 square meters and a net area of ​​387 square meters Journalists from Trieste's "Il Piccola" visited the location where Šapić's villa is located and confirm that the house is located in an area where there are several other buildings but it is not possible to approach them from the gate with video surveillance Colleagues from Italy rang the intercom that says Šapić Another real estate located on Šapić at the same address is a garage/utility room with an area of ​​127 square meters The third is recorded in the cadastre as an access road with a surface area of ​​four square meters and Šapić shares the ownership of that access in half with another owner the fourth immovable property is the forest that surrounds the houses with a total area of ​​almost 6.200 square meters Šapić is the owner of 4,35 percent of the area and besides him there are 30 other co-owners of the mentioned forest None of this that can be seen in the Italian cadastre is in the register of the domestic Agency for the Prevention of Corruption In the last report that Šapić forwarded to the Agency on July 19 at the time when he was already the mayor of Belgrade - it is written that he has two apartments from real estate: a two-story apartment of 150 square meters and a three-bedroom apartment of 98 square meters The Agency's registry does not indicate where the apartments are located but none of them correspond to the square footage of a villa in Trieste In the period when he bought the villa in Opičina in 2018 Šapić did not submit a single report to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption The first report after the purchase of that villa is from January 22 2019 - then he reported a large number of immovable properties although that object is of similar square footage to the one in Opicina Šapić reported it in the previous report from June 2017 (before buying the villa in Italy) as well as in the reports he submitted years ago it can be concluded that it is a different object In Šapić's latest report on assets and income from July 19 there is not even a recently legalized facility on Bežanijska Kosa was created by merging Šapić's apartment with a new one which "Vreme" and BIRN already wrote about another 186 square meters in the same location which were also legalized and registered in the cadastre in November last year are not in the register of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption none of these buildings correspond in terms of surface to the immovable properties that Šapić reported to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption As there is a possibility that the official has reported property data to the Agency we asked the Agency if all the reports submitted by Šapić are visible on the website and if we received a reply from the Agency that "all the reports submitted to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption by Aleksandar Šapić have been processed and published on the Agency's website" From this it can be concluded that Šapić broke the law by not reporting to the Agency either the villa in Italy or the legalized part of the building on the Bežanijska Kosa a former member of the Board of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption told "Vreme" and BIRN that failure to declare real estate and financial assets is a violation of the law and that it is a misdemeanor that could have elements of criminal responsibility "Of course you are obliged to report all assets and accounts including those that are not in the country The thing is that it was somehow tolerated because you should make additional efforts to start cooperation with authorities and institutions that are outside the country it was determined what Siniša Mali has in Bulgaria but to what extent the Agency does this without public pressure Stojiljković says that the responsibility of officials depends on the collected facts and that it can be a complicated and long procedure with a problematic outcome He adds that the agency's action will probably depend on the reaction the text will cause after its publication Aleksandar Šapić signed a sales contract for a villa in Opičina with Marta Prioglio from whom he bought the aforementioned real estate which is still registered to him in the Italian cadastre The question arises as to how the aforementioned funds ended up in the bank account in Italy since in all the reports submitted by Aleksandar Šapić to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption it was stated that he does not have any funds in bank accounts in the country or abroad which he could have acquired as a top water polo player so the question arises again as to why he did not declare that money and why he did not declare the house in Trieste if the origin of the money for its purchase is unquestionable The sales contract also reveals that Aleksandar Šapić at the time of the purchase of the villa in Opičina that he had a residence in Trieste at the address Viale Gessi no That status allowed Šapić to take advantage of the tax benefits provided by law when buying his first house According to the website of the Italian Government Revenue Agency the conditions for the buyer to obtain tax benefits are as follows: • the real estate being purchased must be located in the territory of the municipality where the buyer already resides If he has a residence in another municipality the buyer must transfer his residence to the one in which the property is located; • that the buyer is not the exclusive owner or joint owner with a spouse of another residential unit in the municipality where the real estate is being purchased; • that the buyer is not already the owner and does not have the right to ownership of any part even during the division of joint property of a housing unit or real estate purchased It is added that all benefits are canceled if it is determined that false statements were made in the documents as well as in the case if the residence application is not transferred within 18 months to the place where the purchased real estate is located the benefits are lost if the property purchased with benefits is sold before five years have passed since the purchase (unless another one is purchased within one year) In the event that any of the conditions are violated the office will proceed with tax compensation at the regular tax base All the mentioned conditions are also part of Šapić's statement written in the sales contract for the villa in Opičina Šapić also stated that he has no other real estate in Italy "that he is not the sole owner or in common with his spouse of the right of ownership use and residence of another house in the territory of the municipality where the purchased real estate is located." It also says that he is married but that his marriage is not registered in any Italian register It is also stated that Šapić stated that the real estate will be used for the residence of a natural person and will not be used as a business space or for commercial services Šapić stated that he is a Serbian citizen and that he is aware of the consequences of violating all the stated conditions that he is aware that in the event of a false statement he loses all benefits and pays a fine: "The buyer declares that he is aware that in the case of making a false statement or re-transfer based on the sale or free transfer of the subject real estate before five years have passed for that procedure the registration tax is paid in the usual amount unless the taxpayer buys another real estate with a parking lot that will be his main residence within one year of the alienation of that real estate." All these statements of Aleksandar Šapić recorded in the sales contract were given at the time when he held the public office of President of the Municipality of Novi Beograd in Serbia get residence and residence in Italy and did he have it at the time he lived in Belgrade and held a public office but also for a whole series of years before that when he became the president of the Municipality of Novi Belgrade.. Šapić stayed in Italy - where he played as a water polo player in two local clubs - and had grounds for obtaining a residence permit But then he went to Russia and ended his sports career three years later different grounds on which a foreigner can obtain temporary or permanent residence in a country As BIRN and Vreme were told by the consular department of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Rome it is necessary to have a residence permit (residence permit) the reasons for a permanent or temporary stay in a foreign country can be numerous: for employment stated in a statement to "Vreme" and BIRN that a citizen of a third country can apply for a residence permit if he regularly resides on the territory of Italy "Those who enter as tourists do not have the right to settle in Italy - they have to apply for a long-term visa and then get the appropriate residence permit a residence permit is a prerequisite for obtaining a residence We also asked the lawyer whether a citizen of Serbia can have a registered residence on the territory of Serbia and on the territory of Italy at the same time and whether in the case of registering a residence on the territory of Italy he must deregister his residence in Serbia but also that he must prove that he resides permanently in Italy "The competent Italian authority has no right to know whether the applicant has a residence outside Italy the prerequisite of habitual residence remains so the person must show that he habitually lives in the place where he applied and must show the intention to stay there permanently does not require the applicant to cancel his stay in another country.” To our question whether it is an offense if you get a tax reduction for the purchase of your first property in Italy Neri answers by stating the conditions for obtaining such a relief "In order to get relief as a 'first house' it is enough that it is your place of residence you cannot get a tax reduction if you permanently live in another city/state.” In order to get answers to all the open questions - whether the public official Aleksandar Šapić once again entered into a "clash" with domestic laws and whether he deceived the Italian institutions as well - we also invited the mayor That's why we asked him the following in writing: - why he did not report the villa in Opičina to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in 2018 or 2019 and why that real estate is not in his latest Report on Assets and Income dated July 19 despite the fact that he still owns the said real estate today; - with what funds did he buy the mentioned real estate since in his reports on assets and income it is written that he does not have any funds in accounts in the country or abroad; - on what basis did he already have a registered residence in Trieste at the time of signing the purchase and sale agreement for real estate in Opicina since at that time he was living and working in Belgrade as a public official; - whether his residence in Italy enabled him to use the "first house" tax relief that is - whether he used it and paid a reduced tax for the purchased real estate; - is he still registered at the address of the house bought in Opičina as well as who lives in that house today and whether it might be used for commercial purposes or rented out which is otherwise not allowed with the "first house" benefit Finally - does he still have a registered residence in Italy at the address in Trieste where he was registered at the time of the purchase of the villa in Opicina No responses had been received by the time this text was sent to the press Serbian students repeated a hundred times that this is a marathon Similar to Adam Mihnjik in the eighties in Poland The government in Serbia is on the way to the end - you just need to be patient With the inclusivity created at the plenums students should continue during election engagement including the opposition at some point - whatever it may be © 2025 Time, Belgrade. 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