The number of French people applying for Belgian citizenship increased
Read the article in the Figaro and a special report on Gérard Depardieu’s case (both in French).
Author: rscas.webunit@eui.eu
Putin Endorses Eased Citizenship Requirements
President Vladimir Putin in his state-of-the-nation address Wednesday called for legislative amendments simplifying the process of obtaining Russian citizenship, amendments that could allow millions of people to receive Russian passports. Read the article of the The Moscow Times.
Investor programs: attempting to cure the struggling European economies?
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert, Jelena Dzankic While the epidemic of the economic crisis is still troubling Europe, many of the Old Continent’s countries seek out creative ways to secure a much needed injection of capital into their struggling economies. Investor Read More …
L’Option de Loi et les Binationaux: Peut-On Dépasser le Conflit de Nationalités?
In this paper I analyse the scope of the choice of law offered to parties in various family relationships (such as divorce, matrimonial contracts or alimony). In several jurisdictions and under rules of European private international law, parties may select Read More …
Irish Supreme Court restricts discretion in refusals of naturalisation
By Alan Desmond, PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. In a report on citizenship acquisition in Ireland issued last year, the Immigrant Council of Ireland highlighted a number of issues which make the process of Read More …
Spain: Citizenship Process Eased for Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Jews, who already benefited from a preferential naturalization procedure in Spain, will now be granted Spanish citizenship automatically. Read the article of the New York Times and the article in eSefarad (in Spanish)..
The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation
In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, “illegal” migrants, and convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development primarily through the lens of Read More …
Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaften als Konfliktpotential. Nationale Divergenzen unter europäischer Flagge
From the perspective of individual citizens, the possession of several nationalities offers a number of advantages. For the nation-state, however, the situation is different: behind every further citizenship there is the legislation of another sovereign country in which the former Read More …
More than one million individuals got Italian citizenship abroad in twelve years (1998-2010)
by EUDO Citizenship expert Guido Tintori According to the latest available data, between 1998 and 2010, 1,003,403 individuals got Italian citizenship by descent at Italian consulates abroad. 73.3 per cent (735,635) of the total new Italian/EU passports were released in Read More …
The European Web Site on Integration published a Special Feature on Access to Nationality
On 20 November 2012, the European Web Site on Integration published a Special Feature on Access to Nationality. The dossier uses EUDO CITIZENSHIP and refers often to the ACIT project.