Trieste owes everything to Austria, it is the the symbol of its multiethnic Empire, which found it a small fishermen port and turned it into a world-scale port.

Trieste owes everything to Austria, it is the the symbol of its multiethnic Empire, which found it a small fishermen port and turned it into a world-scale port.
UPDATE: in July 2017 the Court of Trieste ruled that Free Trieste’s demonstration for the Northern Free Port was not subversive.
To date [2015] the Italian Republic’s State Budgets contain an item regarding expenditures for the administration of the present-day Territory of Trieste.
The EZIT belongs to the Free Territory of Trieste, being established by the British-US A.M.G. F.T.T. (Order No. 104 of 12 May 1949).
Every year, 40,000 Triestines leave, escaping poverty. 50,000 Triestines are on the edge of poverty, or are poor. This is how 1 Triestine out of 3 lives.
The adhesions come from Austria and Czechia. The European Commission’s archive reveals new details about the legal relations between Trieste and the EU.