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.
In the meantime Canada just started welcoming folks who have Canadian ancestry.
Anyone care to explain? So with the citizenship law currently in place, you get Italian citizenship if any of your parents have it. But does that mean your kids will also get it since you have it? When does it stop? Seems like the nr of Italians abroad will balloon in a few generations if that’s the case. No wonder they want to change it
Why should it stop?
In Norway we have 5.5 million citizens. There are roughly 6 million American citizens of Norwegian descendants. If we had the same system that would put an unbelievable strain on our country
