"A new bill aims to make it significantly harder to obtain - or keep - Italian citizenship, with proposals ranging from testing knowledge of Italian culture to making it possible to leave people stateless. The hard-right, anti-immigration party presented the bill to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, saying it believed Italians wanted tighter limits after a failed referendum in June on easing citizenship requirements. "Citizenship is a serious matter and must be treated as such," said Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the League's leader."
"The bill has not yet started moving through parliament, and does not currently look likely to become law. But proposals from the League to tighten citizenship rules have been pushed through before, including major changes introduced in 2018 when Salvini served as interior minister in a past government. For now, here are the main changes the new bill sets out. 1. New integration exam for those born in Italy"
A proposed bill would make obtaining and retaining Italian citizenship significantly more difficult. Provisions include a cultural integration exam for foreign nationals born and educated in Italy, required at age 18 and designed by the interior ministry to assess knowledge of basic social and legal rules. The bill would dramatically lengthen residency requirements before citizenship applications can be made. The proposal also includes measures that could render some people stateless. The League, a hard-right, anti-immigration party, presented the bill after a failed June referendum on easing citizenship rules. The measure has not begun parliamentary debate and currently appears unlikely to pass.
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