We often think about citizenship as an inalienable status. Yet the cases of deprivation of citizenship in the US and the UK reveal that even birthright citizenship can be revoked in certain cases; even if it would lead to statelessness. Read More …
In the Delmi-GLOBALCIT Policy Brief entitled How Citizenship Laws Differ: A Global Comparison (2018:9), Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute), Maarten Vink (Maastricht University) and Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin) analyse the inclusiveness of provisions in citizenship laws in 175 states. They measure how much Read More …
Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating a fraudulent scheme which has enabled thousands of foreigners to obtain Bulgarian passports by corrupting state officials. The scheme allegedly involved employees of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad who are suspected of having accepted bribes of up Read More …
On 30 October the US President Donald J. Trump gave an interview claiming that “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United Read More …
GLOBALCIT publishes four new country reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens – Poland, Romania, Germany and Cyprus, as well as a FAIREU key country report: electoral participation in Belgium. Along with the previous five studies, these reports are available Read More …
By Szabolcs Pogonyi, GLOBALCIT expert on electoral rights and political participation in Hungary On 19 October, the Hungarian government tabled amendments to the Act CXIII of 2003 on the Election of Members of the European Parliament. In the current law, Read More …
On 10 October 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) of Poland overturned an earlier judgment of the Cracow Administrative Court (CAC) forbidding the entry of a British birth certificate into the Polish register of birth. The case concerned the transcription Read More …
The EU Justice commissioner Vera Jourová has warned that the investor citizenship and residence programmes in place across a number of Member States are putting Europe’s security at risk. She also highlighted the EU’s objection to the sale of citizenship Read More …
GLOBALCIT publishes two new country reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens – in France and in Slovakia. Along with the previous five studies, these reports are available through the EUI’s CADMUS repository and the publications section of our Read More …
We are happy to announce two new books collecting seven EUDOCIT/GLOBALCIT forum debates on citizenship and voting rights: Debating Transformations of National Citizenship and Debating European Citizenship, both edited by our co-director Rainer Bauböck. The books have been published in Read More …
