by EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Joachim Stern and Gerd Valchars The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) announced today the annulment of Austria’s anachronistic and discriminatory denial of citizenship iure sanguinis to children of Austrian fathers born out of wedlock (Judgmenet of Nov Read More …
The idea of allowing Estonians to have dual citizenship was thrown back into the national spotlight yesterday when the Ministry of Interior sent the Cabinet a proposal to allow such citizenship if it is obtained at birth. Read the full Read More …
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) applauds Ukraine’s steps towards ratification of the two UN Conventions on Statelessness, as the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the legislation on accession on 13 January 2013. Read the news item on the website of the United Read More …
Read the news item in the Voice of Russia.
This paper describes and analyses the usefulness of naturalisation rates as an indicator for political incorporation of migrants in Europe. This paper was developed in light of the production of indicators of migrant integration across Europe by the European Commission, Read More …
Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted Read More …
Hungary’s government is going to streamline the naturalisation of applicants for Hungarian citizenship. Read the article on Politics.hu and the news item on EWSI.
Read the report in the Guardian and an article in Le Temps (in French).
By EUDO citizenship expert Andrea Baršová On 16 January 2013, the Constitutional Law Committee of the Czech Chamber of Deputies (the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament) will discuss the draft citizenship bill. The bill, introduced by the government to Read More …
This paper deals with dual citizenship by naturalisation. It analyses the current situation in Europe with a specific focus on Lichtenstein. Publication details and link to source: Martina Sochin d’Elia (collaborator Michael Kieber), ‘Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft bei Naturalisierung – Eine europäische Read More …
