Reinhold Messner in September 2016. Wikicommons/ Ordercrazy. Some rights reserved.In 2010, Hungary's governing Fidesz party offered Hungarian citizenship to all Magyars. This caused outrage in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and even Ukraine.
Today, it's Austria's turn. The newly elected government headed by Sebastian Kurz has revitalised an old nationalist idea, never really embraced by Vienna: conceding the Austrian passport to the German-speaking minority of Italy.
Not all South Tyroleans – half a million of them – use German at home. Sixty-nine per cent of them do. Others speak either Italian or Ladin, one of Europe's oldest languages, tucked away in the Dolomites.
