Some angry that politician with Italian roots easily obtained citizenship while on trip to meet PM Giorgia Meloni

Summary

Italy granted citizenship to Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, due to his Italian ancestry, sparking outrage over the contrast with strict citizenship rules for children of migrants born in Italy.

Critics, including opposition lawmaker Riccardo Magi, called the decision discriminatory, highlighting Italy’s restrictive laws for migrants despite allowing distant descendants of Italians to claim citizenship.

Milei, who has close ties with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is in Rome for political events.

Pro-migrant groups have pushed for reforms, but Meloni’s right-wing government opposes easing citizenship laws.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The EU doesn’t have that kind of power over individual member states. It’s not like the EU is like a federal government.

      • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Not gonna happen. Too many fundamental differences between member countries and too many very powerful anti-EU groups in the individual parliaments and in the EU Parliament. The Amsterdam Treaty of 1999 also ruled out and prohibits the idea of a federal, EU-wide citizenship. The EU will always be mainly a trade cooperation.