Teatro Valle Occupato have been given an ultimatum to leave Rome's oldest theatre by Thursday 31 July 2014. The European Cultural Foundation extends full solidarity to the Teatro Valle Occupato, who received the ECF Princess Margriet Award this year, and to its Foundation for the Commons. The engagement of many of Rome's citizens and cultural workers legitimised the theatre as a common cultural resource, and as one of the most remarkable example of bottom-up involvement in culture in Italy and Europe today.