It is only the first step, but it is an important one: on October 13, the Italian Parliament said yes for the first time to a new law on citizenship, recognizing Italian citizens on grounds of ius soli or ius culturae, rather than ius sanguinis. This means that third-country nationals' children could be registered - at birth or when they reach the age of consent - as Italian citizens if they were born in Italy (where at least one of the parents has a regular residency permit) or have attended Italian schools for at leat five years. The new law now goes to the Senate for debate.