 Whilst Italy, under far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has pursued an anti-migrant agenda, curtailing migrants' special protection and cracking down on residence permits, Bologna has taken a different tack. As a city, Bologna has replaced eos sanguinis, the right of blood, with eos soli, the right of the soil. That means that any child born in Bologna is considered a Bolognese citizen, irrespective of where their parents originally came from.