Read the question posed to the Council by Judith Sargentini, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Hélène Flautre, Franziska Keller, Ulrike Lunacek, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. Consult our earlier news on the growing trend of offering Read More …
Read an interesting comment on the Maltese ‘citizenship for sale’ scheme in The Independent. Consult our earlier news on the growing trend of offering citizenship to foreign investors in EU Member States. ‘Should Citizenship be for Sale’? Earlier this Read More …
The Migration Policy Institute features Citizenship for sale as the #3 migration issue of the year. Read a commentary on the concerns of the EU Member States in the Financial Times and consult earlier news on the growing trend of Read More …
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Luicy Pedroza. The Bremen Constitutional Court (Bremer Staatsgerichtshof) will decide on January 31, 2014, whether the law proposal (Gesetz zur Ausweitung des Wahlrechts) that would give voting rights to foreign residents (at state-level elections for EU-citizens, Read More …
Read the news report in Romania Insider, 29 November 2013, by Shaun Turton. Read the Eurostat News Release of 27 November 2013 here and a note on the overall trend in granting citizenship here. For more information on Acquisition of citizenship statistics from Eurostat Read More …
In recent decades millions of people have migrated to the democracies of North America and Western Europe. Some of these immigrants have become citizens of their new homelands, while others remain foreign residents. This article shows that the family context Read More …
The EUDO CITIZENSHP team presented the final results of the ACIT project on Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Immigrant Integration at the 10th meeting of the European Integration Forum (EIF) on 27-28 November in Brussels. The ACIT European Read More …
Read the newly published Scottish Government’s White Paper on Scotland’s Future. (Plans on citizenship are elaborated on pages 271-273). Read a commentary by EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director Jo Shaw on Open Democracy. Read a previous EUDO CITIZENSHIP news item on Citizenship Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP collaborator Laura Block, 27 November 2013. In their final round of coalition talks on 27 November, Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) reached a compromise on toleration of dual citizenship, which had been one of Read More …
New statistics from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, show that in 2011, 783 100 persons acquired citizenship of an EU27 Member State, down by 4% compared with 2010. This decline, which occurred after three consecutive years of increase, is mainly Read More …
