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 engineer
• The law about who owns the sea
• How he built the island
• Declaring Rose Island to be an independent country
• The political situation in the 1960s
• Why people were worried when he declared independence
• The reaction of the Italian government
• Declaring The Republic of Minerva in The Pacific Ocean
• Libertarianism & declaring new nation-states
• What 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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