‘Filettino’ an Italian city speaks out Self-Determination

In Central Italy a small town has announced its independence and launched to print its own banknotes.

The authorities in Filettino, 100km (70 miles) east of Rome, are complaining against severity actions.

It has only 550 residents and under new law intended at cutting regional administration expenditures it will be enforced to unite with neighboring Trevi.

Luca Sellari, Town mayor, who stands to drop his job because of the Euro-zone crisis, came up with the idea.

He formed his own currency, entitled the Fiorito. Banknotes have his head on the back, and they are already being utilized in regional shops and being bought as souvenirs by tourists who have initiated to swarm the usually silence streets.

The mayor says there are numerous enthusiasms about announcing the independence of the new principality.

There has been such a protest by small towns crosswise Italy at the government step to eliminate regional councils and combine them with greatest towns that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition may be enforced to back off.

In the mean while the new Principality of Filettino – entire with coat of arms and website - is swiftly enjoying worldwide recognition.

Television stations from as far afield as Russia have been operating news features about Filettino.

Nevertheless, the mayor says, Italy was one time made up of dozens of principalities and dukedoms. As he says, the interior republic of San Marino still supervises to survive, so why not Filettino?