Rebecca Ann Hughes
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‘Shot itself in the foot’: How Italy’s citizenship crackdown stranded its diaspora (opens the original)
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At the start of 2025, relocation expert Jennifer Sontag had seven clients who were seeking Italian citizenship through descent and were ready to move. Those plans were brought to an abrupt end when Italy suddenly tightened its rules on claiming citizenship via ancestry last March. “All seven remain in the United States because they lost the citizenship pathway on which their moves had been based and did not qualify for Italy’s existing visa categories,” Sontag tells The Local. Sontag, the CEO an
‘Shot itself in the foot’: How Italy’s citizenship crackdown stranded its diaspora (opens the original)
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At the start of 2025, relocation expert Jennifer Sontag had seven clients who were seeking Italian citizenship through descent and were ready to move. Those plans were brought to an abrupt end when Italy suddenly tightened its rules on claiming citizenship via ancestry last March. “All seven remain in the United States because they lost the citizenship pathway on which their moves had been based and did not qualify for Italy’s existing visa categories,” Sontag tells The Local. Sontag, the CEO an
What to expect from Italy’s air travel strikes on Tuesday (opens the original)
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A walkout by easyJet pilots and cabin crew is expected to cause the biggest disruption. The USB Lavoro Privato union called for a strike across the national network for a full 24 hours, from midnight to 11.59pm. Cabin crew at DAT, a regional carrier that operates routes from Palermo to the islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria, will walk out over the same hours, in action limited to the airline’s Palermo operation. Ground services at several airports will also take industrial action on Tuesday, i
Violent hail batters northern Italy as severe storms grow more frequent (opens the original)
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A concert by Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny in Milan was abandoned on Saturday night after strong winds, lightning and hail hit the venue, with AFP reporting injuries among fans. In the province of Ferrara, hailstones of up to nine centimetres in diameter damaged cars, houses and crops over the weekend. Hailstones are only expected to get bigger and storms more frequent due to climate change, research shows. And the frequency of severe hailstorms is increasing faster in northern Italy than anywhe
Italy's Dolomites deploy police and rangers to curb tourist crowds (opens the original)
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Last Sunday, videos of a long queue of tourists at the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, a distinctive formation of three peaks in the Dolomites, went viral. Hundreds waited in the sun for over an hour for the shuttle that runs from the town of Misurina up to the mountain rifugio Auronzo as the service was overwhelmed. The scenes reignited discussion of overtourism in the area, with growing anger over reports of ill-prepared hikers in flip-flops, campers playing loud music, and visitors discarding litter on
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