Analysis of Law 74-2025 and its impact on Italian citizenship regulations including the Tajani Decree reforms
On October 20, 2026, the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission (Directorate C – Rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy, Unit C.2 – Fundamental rights and free movement) issued its formal reply to the complaint lodged on May 12, 2026, by the Natitaliani association against the Italian Republic. The official communication…
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⚖️ DEFINITIVE 2026 LEGAL UPDATE: The legal landscape surrounding Law 74/2025 is now settled across Italy’s highest courts. The Italian Supreme Court (United Sections Ruling No. 24045/2026, confirmed by Decision 24184/2026) established that Law 74/2025 is strictly non-retroactive: all applications and judicial petitions filed before March 27, 2025 remain governed by pre-reform law. On April…
I have prepared a detailed video report summarizing the technical nuances, the judicial atmosphere, and the strategic implications of today’s hearing. This analysis connects the courtroom arguments with the upcoming Supreme Court decisions.
The Legal Battleground: The Three Referral Orders in Detail The constitutional questions before the Court today arise from three specific referral orders, which I have summarized below in their essential details: 1. Referral Order No. 4/2026 (Court of Mantua): The Case of the Minor Arthur Vincenzo De Lucca The first question was raised in proceedings…
The day after Ruling 63/2026, attorney Marco Mellone filed an urgent brief with the Sezioni Unite of the Corte di Cassazione. Two cases pending, two courts now pointing in different directions, and one question the Constitutional Court deliberately left unanswered. This is where things stand. Two courts, two different questions The Constitutional Court answers one…
The day after Ruling 63/2026, attorney Marco Mellone filed an urgent brief with the Sezioni Unite of the Corte di Cassazione. Two cases pending, two courts now pointing in different directions, and one question the Constitutional Court deliberately left unanswered. This is where things stand. Two courts, two different questions The Constitutional Court answers one…
📌 UPDATE August 10, 2026: Assess your Minor Issue case with our new interactive tool: Italian Citizenship Minor Issue Tool — AVITAL. 🚨 UPDATE — JULY 2026 Since this analysis was published (April 30, 2026), the constitutional saga has continued. On July 23, 2026, the Constitutional Court issued Order No. 147/2026 referring the generational-limits question…
A United Front for Citizenship In these months of legislative uncertainty and jurisdictional turbulence, I deemed it essential not only to monitor every evolution of Law 74/2025, but also to confer with other leading professionals in this field to offer my clients a robust and multifaceted technical perspective. It is with great pleasure that I…
⚠️ HISTORICAL TIMELINE & SUBSEQUENT RULINGS UPDATE:Sentence No. 63/2026 was the Italian Constitutional Court’s initial ruling on Law 74/2025 (Tajani Reform). Following this decision, two major landmark events reshaped the legal landscape:1. In July 2026, the Constitutional Court issued Order No. 147/2026, referring Law 74/2025 to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) regarding EU citizenship…
On April 30, 2026, the Italian Constitutional Court published Judgment No. 63/2026, a highly anticipated decision concerning the constitutional legitimacy of Article 3-bis of Law No. 91 of February 5, 1992. This article was introduced by Decree-Law No. 36 of March 28, 2025, and subsequently converted into Law No. 74 of May 23, 2025. You…
On April 30, 2026, the Italian Constitutional Court published Judgment No. 63/2026 — a long-awaited ruling regarding the constitutional legitimacy of Article 3-bis of Law No. 91 of February 5, 1992. This article was introduced by Decree-Law No. 36 of March 28, 2025, and subsequently converted into Law No. 74 of May 23, 2025. You…
Category: Citizenship The Citizenship Reform: Media Narrative vs. Legal Reality Media narratives consistently distort the legal reality of Italian citizenship. A recent editorial by Andrea Molle exemplifies this dynamic. In his editorial published on ItaliaOggi (April 8, 2026), Molle criticized the ius sanguinis framework in the Italian press, claiming the system is administratively unsustainable. He…
🚨 UPDATE — JULY 2026 Since this analysis was published (March 24, 2026), the constitutional saga has unfolded. On April 30, 2026, the Constitutional Court upheld Art. 3-bis of Law 74/2025 in Ruling 63/2026 — including the generational limit (letter c) that the Padua conference had debated two years earlier. On July 23, 2026, Order…
Consolidated Italian Citizenship Law 91/1992: Reflecting Senate-Approved Tajani Decree Changes (A.C. 2402) As the Italian Parliament moves towards the final conversion of Decree-Law 36/2025 (the “Tajani Decree”) into law, significant changes to Italy’s core citizenship legislation, Law No. 91 of 1992, are taking shape. Following the Senate’s approval on May 15, 2025, the amended bill…
Some Changes Worsen Impact (Full Translation Included) In a critical legislative step, the Italian Senate gave its approval on May 15, 2025, to the bill converting the controversial Decree-Law 36/2025 (the “Tajani Decree”) into permanent law. The text, as amended by the Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Committee in recent intense sessions (see updates from May 9th…
Government’s New Proposals and Key Exclusions in Senate Panel Italy’s Decree-Law 36/2025, often called the “Tajani Decree,” is making its way through the legislative steps to become permanent law (DDL 1432), and some critical developments have just occurred. This Decree 36 Amendments Update shines a light on the recent activities in the Italian Senate’s Constitutional…
Update May 15th: On May 8, 2025, the Italian Senate gave its approval to the bill converting the controversial Decree-Law 36/2025. Some Changes worsen its impact. Read all about iton my latest post (Full Translation Included). Update May 9th: On May 8, 2025, the Italian Senate’s 1st Permanent Commission (Constitutional Affairs) held a crucial session to discuss…
Decree 36: Italy’s Citizenship by Descent Changes Explained The landscape of Italian citizenship ius sanguinis (by right of blood) has been thrown into unprecedented turmoil. In late March 2025, the Italian government enacted emergency measures drastically altering the rules, including the impactful Decree 36, followed swiftly by parliamentary proposals suggesting even further changes. This rapid…
🚨 UPDATE — JULY 2026 The Decreto Legge 36/2025 was converted into Law 74/2025 (May 2025). Its core rule (Art. 3-bis, generational limits) was upheld by the Constitutional Court in Ruling 63/2026, but the same question was referred to the CJEU by Order 147/2026 (Mantua + Campobasso), and the Sezioni Unite Ruling 24045/2026 ended the…
