Italy’s Constitutional Court Opens Hearing on 2025 Citizenship Limits

Overview

• The Court opened a public hearing in Rome on March 11 to review the constitutionality of the 2025 measures that limited jus sanguinis to children and grandchildren.
• The case stems from a Turin tribunal referral, with judges testing the law against Articles 2, 3 and 117 on inviolable rights, equality and cultural protection.
• Lawyers for petitioners argued the changes retroactively revoked status and amounted to mass denationalization, while the State said no acquired rights were harmed and the generational cap is justified.
• The session was livestreamed, began at 9:30 a.m. local time with counsel and a government representative present, and a ruling could take weeks or months.
• Requests filed before the law took effect remain under prior rules per a July 2025 order, and the eventual decision will bind similar cases affecting millions of descendants, including an estimated 32 million people of Italian origin in Brazil.