Delay in De Niro citizenship

ROBERT De Niro will be awarded honorary Italian citizenship - but not during his visit to the Venice Film Festival, as had been expected.

Italy’s Culture Ministry had insisted it would go ahead with the planned honour, rejecting opposition from an Italian-American organisation that said the actor projects a bad image with roles as an

However, culture Minister Giuliano Urbani said yesterday: “We will not manage to present the citizenship in time for the show.”