There will be no unilateral
Austrian move on giving Austrian citizenship to German and Ladin
speakers in Alto Adige, Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said
after talks in Rome Tuesday with his Austrian counterpart Karin
Kneissl.
"I have greatly appreciated the words of Premier Sebastian
Kurz and my colleague Kneissl on he fact that we are countries
that discuss things but do not take unilateral initiatives,"
Alfano said.
He said "Italy's position on double citizenship is the
historic one: the full recognition of the De Gasperi-Gruber
accord, a successful accord".
Kneissl said after the meeting that "we will take into
account all actors" on the issue.
The double-passport possibility is part of the new Austrian
government's programme but "all measures will be taken while
taking into account all the interlocutors," she said.
"Naturally there is a long juridical process that must be got
through".
Vienna recently aired the possibility of giving Austrian
citizenship to ethnic Austrians in the northern Italian region,
which is known to Austria as the South Tyrol.
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