New legislation introduces stricter conditions to acquire Belgian citizenship
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Finland: the number of naturalisations more than doubled during the first half of the year
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP Expert, Sampo Brander Between January and June 2012, Finnish citizenship was granted to 4,554 persons, 4,086 of whom were granted citizenship by application and 468 by declaration. The number more than doubled compared to the same period Read More …
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights & Citizenship, discusses the importance of European Citizenship
Watch the interview of Commissioner Reding on vieuws.eu.
UK migrants to face ‘patriotic’ citizenship test
Read the article on The Guardian online.
EUDO CITIZENSHIP Co-Director Rainer Bauböck discusses expatriate voting on National Public Radio New York
Rainer Bauböck explains why some countries, most recently the Dominican Republic and France, have allocated seats in their legislature to represent expats and whether this is a good model. Listen on WNYC: “Why are Expats Represented in Home Countries?”, 27 June Read More …
Victory at Court of Human Rights for Slovenia’s “erased citizens” brings final closure closer
The Kuric judgment of the European Court of Human Rights was handed down this week. Read Sebastian Kohn’s comments about the judgment on the blog of the European Network on Statelessness.
German Office for Migration and Refugees publishes survey comparing immigrants with and without German citizenship
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has recently published a survey on the naturalisation behaviour of foreign residents in Germany and the effects of citizenship acquisition. Here is a summary of the main results: Young people under 30 decide Read More …
Leader of Hungarian minority party in Slovakia criticizes Hungary’s external citizenship policies for co-ethnics
According to Zsolt Simon, a political leader of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, Hungarian government “does not understand the situation” of Hungarian ethnics in Slovakia. The Hungarian offer of external citizenship for co-ethnics living in neighboring countries is intended to Read More …
300,000 persons acquire Serbian citizenship in the last 8 years
By Milena Tripkovic (EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert) The Serbian Ministry of Interior has provided data on the acquisition of Serbian citizenship according to which around 300,000 persons became citizens of Serbia from January 1, 2004 while 37,500 persons renounced Serbian citizenship Read More …
Swedish government party proposes language requirement for citizenship
According to the MIPEX index published by the Migration Policy group, Sweden is the most liberal country in Europe when it comes to access to citizenship for immigrants through naturalisation. Unlike most other “old immigration states” in Europe, Sweden has Read More …