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This Monday, May 4, the Italians have started their de-escalation with measures towards lack of confidence after more than two months at home. However, one of the novelties of this phase has come with more doubts than certainties. It's about the congiunti .

Italians will be able to go to the home of a 'congiunto', something like a 'close friend' , but who exactly enters the emotional perimeter of this definition? The word has caused countless doubts and discussions that the government has tried to resolve by upsetting half of Italy and angering the other half.

Who are the 'congiunti'

The summary is that anyone but friends. After days of work between technicians and politicians, readings of civil and criminal codes or sentences, this Sunday, the eve of May 4, the Italian Interior Ministry sent a circular to try to clarify the doubts about the 'congiunti' and what he did so by resorting to a cassation sentence.

On November 10, 2014, the Supreme Court recognized the right to compensation for the companion of a pedestrian who was run over and died based on the existence of a "solid emotional relationship".

This quote serves the Italian Ministry of the Interior to clarify justified movements: "Spouses, kinship and affinity relations, or civil union. As well as those characterized by a lasting and significant relationship of life and affection." In short, friends do not enter

Clarification, does not clarify anything

In short, the Government's clarification has not clarified anything. Proof of this is the reading made by the Minister Teresa Bellanova , who applauded that the ministry has "decided to extend the meaning of the term also to those people who are part of our life but to whom we are not linked by family or kinship relationships " A phrase where friends would enter.

For his part, the constitutional lawyer Alfonso Celotto has pointed out that "the 'congiunti' are a broader field than relatives because they include civil unions or boyfriends, but not friends." However, Celotto admits that "we are often more connected with a friend than with an uncle." So the question is not legally resolved.

Thus, the meetings in Italian houses are the responsibility of each citizen as well as the common sense, and good heart, of the agent who can fine or arrest an Italian. What if a policeman asks where you are going? The aforementioned may say "to my husband's cousin's son's house" but not "to my best friend's house".

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