Antonio Tajani

Rule Changes

Public voice for Italy's border measure

For decades, a traveler could fly from Rome to Madrid without showing a passport. On August 9, that stopped. Spain began checking the documents of people arriving from Italy, matching controls Italy had imposed nine days earlier.

Updated 2 hours ago

Rule Changes

Serving as Foreign Minister; law upheld by Constitutional Court

For more than 160 years, anyone who could trace an unbroken bloodline to an Italian ancestor could claim Italian citizenship, no matter how many generations had passed. On March 12, 2026, Italy's Constitutional Court upheld a law that ended that principle, capping eligibility at people with an Italian-born parent or grandparent and requiring that ancestor to have held only Italian citizenship. The ruling cuts off millions of descendants in Brazil, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere who could previously claim an Italian passport and the right to live and work anywhere in the European Union.

Updated May 30

Force in Play

Coordinating Italian victim response in Crans-Montana

A fire ripped through Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana at 1:30am on New Year's Day as over 100 revelers celebrated, killing at least 40 people and hospitalizing 116 with severe burns. Multiple witnesses told French media BFMTV that waitresses carried champagne bottles with sparklers on a barman's shoulders; the flames came within centimeters of the acoustic foam ceiling and engulfed the nightclub within 10 seconds.

Updated May 19