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Discover the story of what happened when an Italian engineer decided to build an island off the coast of Italy..and then declare it to be an independent country.

Giorgio Rosa - the ambitious engineerThe law about who owns the seaHow he built the islandDeclaring Rose Island to be an independent countryThe political situation in the 1960sWhy people were worried when he declared independenceThe reaction of the Italian governmentDeclaring The Republic of Minerva in The Pacific OceanLibertarianism & declaring new nation-statesWhat will the countries of the future look like?


Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/rose-island



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