Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani reiterated on Tuesday that "we need a reform on
the rules of citizenship" that will enable the children on
migrants to become Italian before they turn 18.
The mooted reform has caused tension within the ruling
coalition, with Transport Minister Matteo Salvini's League
staunchly against it and Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party cold to the idea too.
Tajani told Mediaset television that he had given the
parliamentary groups of his centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party
the job of studying a proposal for a 'ius scholae' (Latin for
law of the school) reform to grant Italian citizenship to the
children of immigrants once they have completed mandatory
schooling in Italy, rather than wait until they are 18 to apply
as at present.
'It is a matter of feeling Italian," he said.
"We will prepare the bill and we will show it to our allies," he
continued, adding that the government's current priority was the
2025 budget bill.
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