On January 11, in a 5 to 2 decision on the case Frank v. Attorney General of Canada (2019 SCC 1), Canada’s Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional federal legislation that had disenfranchised expatriate Canadians residing outside Canada for five years or more. The Read More …
In June 2018, the Danish government (the Liberals, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives) entered into a new naturalisation agreement with the Social Democrats and the Danish People’s Party. The agreement provided for a number of restrictions and introduced a Read More …
Brexit highlights fundamental difficulties related to EU citizenship. Our partner programme, the Global Citizenship Governance project, has launched its first online debate on the topic of EU citizenship. The various contributions from prominent scholars in the field provide different answers Read More …
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce the publication of reports on citizenship law in Azerbaijan (by Maxim Tabachnik) and Zimbabwe (by Bronwen Manby). We have now also published our new report on political participation of mobile EU citizens in Lithuania.
On 21 January 2019, Spain and the UK signed a bilateral agreement regulating voting rights of Britons in Spain and Spaniards in the UK. The total number of people concerned in both countries is about 0.5 million. Under the current Read More …
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce its new Infographics page. On this page, you will find user-friendly graphical summaries of our data concerning electoral rights in the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. We will keep expanding this new section of our website Read More …
The Austrian Constitutional Court nullified a decision regarding the loss of the Austrian citizenship of a naturalised Austrian who allegedly had reacquired Turkish citizenship. The provincial citizenship office of Vienna had qualified an alleged extract from the Turkish electoral register Read More …
The notion of ius soli came in the spotlight globally in October 2018, when the US President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to eliminate it, even though it is enshrined in the US Constitution. Automatic citizenship by birth on Read More …
On 12 December, the Hungarian Parliament voted into law the amendments to the Act CXIII of 2003 on the Election of Members of the European Parliament tabled by the governing party in October (see GLOBALCIT News, 23 October 2018). The Read More …
GLOBALCIT has now published five new reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens. Reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens in Estonia, Spain, Latvia, Finland and the Netherlands can be accessed through CADMUS, and our publications section.
