on November 20, 2007, I was there handing a letter to then-President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano on the occasion of the National Day for the Rights of Children and Adolescents at the Quirinale Palace, since at that time I was not an Italian citizen and represented the G2 Second Generations Network. It feels like another era. Gianfranco Fini was calling his government allies “assholes.” Roberto Maroni shrugged his shoulders alongside Silvio Berlusconi, and they claimed that the reform wasn’t part of the People of Freedom party's agenda. I remember the Sarubbi-Granata bill, a joint initiative between the PD and the PDL. I remember the discussions at the Ministry of Social Solidarity led by Paolo Ferrero, who had summoned the association. I was there on October 13, 2015, when the Chamber of Deputies passed the citizenship reform bill in a first reading with a broad majority. I was there when, in 2017, thanks to the PD, just before Christmas, this proposal was not scheduled in the Senate, causing it to sink. I was there when a popular initiative bill was drafted with ASGI, Save the Children, the G2 Second Generations Network, and many other third-sector organizations, to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. I’m still here. Little has changed. I was 17 in 2007. Today I’m 34. What has changed?

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