{"id":39447,"date":"2024-12-14T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-pm-meloni-grants-citizenship-to-argentinas-milei-in-rome\/14\/12\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:02:08","slug":"italian-pm-meloni-grants-citizenship-to-argentinas-milei-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-pm-meloni-grants-citizenship-to-argentinas-milei-in-rome\/14\/12\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian PM Meloni grants citizenship to Argentina&#8217;s Milei in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Argentine President Javier Milei has been granted Italian citizenship by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while on a visit to Rome, the ANSA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Meloni received the ultra-liberal Argentine president in Rome&#8217;s Palazzo Chigi Friday evening, the seat of the Italian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Milei is in Rome to attend a festival on Saturday hosted by Meloni&#8217;s right-wing Brothers of Italy party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The move drew criticism from the country&#8217;s left-wing opposition, with lawmakers accusing Meloni of acting on a whim while denying citizenship to the Italian-born children of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Milei&#8217;s Italian grandparents emigrated to Argentina in the early 20th century, providing justification for Meloni to grant him citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">A few months ago, Milei stated that he was &#8220;75% Italian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Another Argentinian with Italian roots is Pope Francis, who served as archbishop of Buenos Aires before ascending to the papacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/italian-pm-meloni-grants-citizenship-102719938.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine President Javier Milei has been granted Italian citizenship by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while on a visit to Rome, the ANSA<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-pm-meloni-grants-citizenship-to-argentinas-milei-in-rome\/14\/12\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}