After carefully reviewing the concerns voiced by Italian communities around the world—many of whom feel unsettled and confused by the newly proposed rules regarding citizenship by descent—the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE) has issued its required and official opinion on the draft citizenship law. The Council strongly criticizes the intro...
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READ MOREThe Plenary Assembly of the CGIE (General Council of Italians Abroad) is currently underway in Rome. During the session, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Giorgio Silli provided updates and key data about the relationship between Italy and Italians living abroad. The Italian diaspora continues to grow: between April 2024 and April 2025, the number...
READ MOREThe recent citizenship reform decree "has drawn significant interest and sparked discussion within Italian communities." For this reason, "the conversation that will take place within your Council will certainly be valuable and worth close attention, as it may lead to thoughtful evaluation, and perhaps even some reconsideration, of the issues that...
READ MOREOn April 9, 2022, at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, will take place the work of the Country Assembly that will be called to elect the 2 territorial members for the United States on the occasion of the renewal of the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE). The CGIE is the representative body of the Italian communities abroad in all bodies th...
READ MOREWednesday, December 8, 6:00pm. Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 686 Park Avenue - Manhattan, NY. You are cordially invited to an evening dedicated to Italians in the United States in honor of the publication of the volume Gli Italiani in USA: nuove prospettive di una diaspora secolare, published by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute on c...
READ MOREChe il Governo italiano si impegni a fissare una data certa per le elezioni per il rinnovo dei Comitati degli Italiani all’Estero (Comites) e le conseguenti elezioni di secondo grado del Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all’Estero (Cgie). Questo è quanto presentato in una risoluzione alla Commissione Esteri della Camera dalla deputata di Forza Ita...
READ MORE"Il Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all’Estero esprime la propria profonda solidarietà e il totale sostegno a tutte le rappresentanze elette e alle associazioni delle comunità italiane e italo-discendenti negli Stati Uniti, colpite dagli atti di sfregio delle statue di Cristoforo Colombo, monumenti simbolo del contributo della nostra emigrazione...
READ MOREItalian emigration to America at the end of the XIX and beginning of the XX Century is rightfully the predominant one when dealing with the theme of the Italian diaspora in the United States and more generally in the Americas. Numerically impressive, that emigration is by narrative and description "THE" emigration. But it is not the only time that...
READ MOREÈ passato un anno dalla firma del protocollo d’intesa, a Palazzo dei Normanni a Palermo, tra il Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all’Estero (CGIE), l’Assessorato regionale siciliano dell’Istruzione e della Formazione professionale, l’Ente regionale per il diritto allo studio universitario (ERSU) di Palermo. Il documento sottoscritto impegna i firm...
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