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Moroccans, Albanians, Romanians. But above all Italians. In 2020, one in five of the 729,013 people who applied for new citizenship had it recognized in Italy, the first EU Member State for the absolute number of naturalizations, as had not happened since 2017. Lo Stivale in the last two years of reference had lost its primacy as a country for the largest number of acquired citizens, but is once again the most requested destination.
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