A 2024 report found that Italy had made only “some progress” on looted cultural property over the past 25 years. The study, authored by the WJRO and the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, found that Italy had not yet established a clear procedure for restitution, despite having endorsed the 1998 Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art and the 2009 Terezin Declaration. “With the bill under discussion, Italy is finally taking steps... to fill a gap aimed at clearly establishing, in our country as well, right to redress, certainly not for the lives lost and the suffering endured,...