By Helena Wray, Middlesex University This recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), formerly the European Court of Justice (ECJ), raises questions about the relationship between EU citizenship (as provided by Art.20 Treaty on the Read More …
Since the nationality act began on January 1 2009, allowing citizens of five years or more to apply for Luxembourgish nationality, only 0.3% of applicants were refused the passport. Read the full article by the Luxembourgish Internet broadcaster News 352
The processing times for applications to acquire Irish citizenship may take up to four-and-a-half years, a study by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) found. The research examined the experience of 315 migrants from more than 60 countries and a Read More …
by Stephen Coutts On Thursday the 5th of May the Court of Justice handed down its judgment in the case of McCarthy v Secretary of State. Concerning an attempt by an EU citizen to rely on EU law to obtain Read More …
National citizenship is still the last bastion of states’ sovereignty, meaning that EU institutions cannot exercise any direct influence on national citizenship legislation in the EU member states. On the other hand, the process of political integration in the EU, Read More …
This conference proceedings provides the papers presented at the OECD/European Commission joint seminar on Naturalisation and the Socio-Economic Integration of Children held in October 2010 in Brussels. It takes stock of the current knowledge regarding the links between host-country nationality Read More …
By Maarten Vink, University of Maastricht Recent survey data from the Netherlands show that over 60 percent in the Dutch over-18 population oppose the concept of dual nationality, in particular lower educated and over-45s. Three in every five people in Read More …
Read the press release by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the Judgment in Case C-434/09 Shirley McCarthy v Secretary of State for the Home Department Read the Judgment of the Court
by Mária M. Kovács and Szabolcs Pogonyi The new Hungarian constitution, approved by the central right government with a two-thirds majority on 18 April, was signed into law by President Pál Schmitt on 25 April. The date has a dual Read More …
Statelessness in the European Union draws together original research from over one hundred interviews in Estonia, France, Slovenia and the United Kingdom to provide one of the first comparative accounts of the de facto or de jure stateless populations in Read More …
