(ANSA) - Berlin, July 23 - Austrian future plan to give
ethnic Austrians in Italy's South Tyrol region a double passport
is a "curious act", Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said
Monday.
"Before being a hostile act it is a frankly curious act, the
suitability of which we are wondering about," he said.
Moavero said "granting citizenship of a State to the citizens
of another State with which they already share European
citizenship seems to us a big fudge of citizenship and words".
He was speaking after talks in Berlin with his Herman
counterpart, Heiko Maas.
Vienna said earlier the idea would not be put into practice
until next year or the one after that.
"Any solution will be elaborated in a dialogue with Rome and
in agreement with Bolzano (Bozen)," a spokesman said.
Austria double passport 'curious act'
'Fudge of citizenship and words'