19.12.2017 - 10:04 [ Ansa.it ]

Italy rejects Austria passport proposal

„Even if done with the velvet glove of Europeanism, Kurz‘s proposal has the chrism of an ethno-nationalist iron fist,“ Foreign Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova said on his Facebook page. „To clear citizenship on an ethnic basis would have very serious effects in a multicultural and open Europe“.