Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship (edition.cnn.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 10:53
https://lemmy.world/post/44242062

Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents.

The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the rulebook to Europe’s newest country, declared that a child born to an Italian citizen was an Italian citizen.

This founding tenet of the Bel Paese now looks set to change — ending diaspora dreams of returning to the mother country, and meaning that Italians who move abroad risk denying citizenship to their descendants.

On Thursday the Constitutional Court said it would rule in favor of the government and its controversial 2025 law that restricted citizenship for those born abroad. The law — issued last March via emergency decree — had been challenged by four judges, who questioned its constitutionality.

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Marcomunista@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Mar 11:00 collapse

Yes, well, there are people who have lived abroad for generations, speak the local language, and don’t know Italian, but hold Italian citizenship simply because one of their great-great-grandparents was Italian. Meanwhile, people born and raised in Italy who know the language and the local dialect aren’t recognized as citizens simply because their parents aren’t Italian.

biofaust@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 11:34 next collapse

Exactly, plus, given the horrid conditions of many municipal offices in little towns that, in my opinion, should NOT count as separate municipalities, the public costs in terms of time and actual expenditure to verify the claims are ridiculously high.

ik5pvx@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 11:37 next collapse

I don’t expect the current government to ever fix the second part, though.

Spitefire@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 14:16 collapse

I think if the decision had been going forward instead of backward, I would have felt better about it. Saying any descendents born after 2025 will not have assumed citizenship is very different than saying “Lol, your citizenship wasn’t real.”

Now I feel like the fact that I decided to learn Italian and work out an emigration plan before applying bit me in the ass. I should have started the process 15 years ago when I was as you say.