Italy moves towards easing nationality obstacles for immigrants
As one regional leader dispenses honorary citizenship to
children of immigrants, Italian MPs press for automatic
nationality right for those born in the country cchild italy An
Italian child takes part in a Good Friday procession. Eight per
cent of Italian children are now of foreign origin. Photograph:
Alamy  He is called Jürgen, but the name has nothing to do with
Albania, his parents' home country, nor yet with Italy, his
adopted home, where he was born 10 years ago. No, he was named
after Jürgen Klinsmann, a German football player idolised by his
father.  "I feel Italian but also a bit Albanian. Anyway my
mates at school don't wonder which I am. As far as they're
concerned I'm Jürgen, that's it," says the boy, a centre of
attention since it was announced he would soon be awarded
honorary Italian citizenship, along with 4,535 other immigrant
children born in Pesaro and the surrounding province in the past
10 years.  An official ceremony is to