Referendum on Italian citizenship: a possible big step forward – Le Taurillon

On 8 and 9 June, the Italians are called to vote on a major reform of the right to citizenship. On the initiative of a popular petition which collected more than 500,000 signatures last September, the threshold required to call a referendum in Italy, the proposal aims to reduce from ten to five years the waiting period necessary to obtain Italian nationality for foreigners. If approved, about 2.5 million people could thus become eligible for cit…