Liguria has the international right to regain independence for at least the following reasons:

• the annexation to the Savoia reign was illegal, as in violation of international right and of the very reason for which the Congress of Vienna was convened: the re-establishment of states and governments that existed before 1797;
• the annexation was strongly opposed by the legitimate ligurian government;
• the annexation was never ratified by a popular vote, thus remaining an illegal and illegitimate act;
• the rights of peoples cannot be limited.

The Republic of Genoa, which represented the free and independent Liguria for more then 700 years, was a unique experience in the Italian peninsula. Its history is not very much Italian, but European and Mediterranean. All inhabitants of this land were known worldwide as "genoese" and thus they considered themselves. For them, someone from Milan, Florence or Rome was as a foreigner as someone from Paris or Madrid. In the Middle Ages the Genoese people, spread all around the world, defined itself as a "Communitas", a sort of "Commonwealth". The Republic of Genoa was really very modern in its conception of rights and rules: there was no religious prosecution within its boundaries, everyone might have a chance to grow and get rich, governors were subject to strict verification and control. Despite its many political drawbacks, the Republic can be considered as a unique experience, rather far from the other states of the Mediaterranean and Italian area.

The very reason today for having an independent Liguria is to give Ligurian people a future: their traditions, so far and different, from the Italian ones, are their only hope to regain the possibility to have a political and economical future, together with other peoples, in a federal Europe: the Europe of peoples, so different from the Europe of large, centralized bureaucracies.