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navigation, search  Demetrio Volcic, also known in Slovene as
Mitja Volčič (born 22 November 1931) is an Italian journalist,
author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to
prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign
correspondent for the Italian television RAI. In the late 1990s,
he served as member of the Italian Senate, and later as Member
of European Parliament for the European Socialist Party. He
currently resides in Trieste.  Early life and journalist
career[edit]  He was born as Dimitrij Volčič in Ljubljana,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now the capital of Slovenia). His parents
were Slovene political immigrants from the Italian-administered
Julian March who had moved to Yugoslavia in order to avoid the
repressive policies of Fascist Italianization. Despite coming
from a Roman Catholic background, his parents sent him to a
Serbian Orthodox elementary school in Ljubljana. After the end
of World War II, his parents moved back to