More and more Italians marrying foreigners, new study shows

(ANSA) – Venice, December 5 – More and more Italians are marrying non-Italians, the Leone Moressa Foundation for immigration research made known Thursday.

Such weddings increased by 15.3% last year, with 20.764 couples or 10% of the total tying the knot.

An overwhelming majority of ”mixed” couples, or 78.7%, involve Italian men marrying foreign-born women. The Italians appeared to favor Romanians (14.5%), followed by Ukrainians (8.6%) and Brazilians (6.2%).

The most marriages between citizens and non-citizens occurred where the highest concentrations of foreigners live, namely in the regions of Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Veneto, according to the study.