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 …
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce the publication of the Working paper Brexit, nationality and union citizenship : bottom up by Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Olivera. The paper examines the reactions of Union citizens to the imminent Brexit and the uncertainty the Read More …
An amendment to the Norwegian Citizenship Act of 2005 was adopted this spring, opening up for the deprivation of citizenship for persons convicted of certain serious crimes. The new §26a will enter into force on 1 January 2019. It stipulates that Read More …
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce the publication of five country reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens (Austria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary and Slovenia). Reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens can be accessed through the EUI’s open access repository Read More …
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior confirmed reports that it intends to again keep secret the names of applicants naturalised based on their “outstanding achievements”. The ministry argues there would be no legal basis to make them public and data Read More …
On 26 June, the government of Montenegro has adopted the Information on the programme for the acquisition of Montenegrin citizenship by investment, and has instructed the relevant authorities to prepare the launch of the programme from October 2018. In 2010, Read More …
On July 5 2018, the first chamber of the Austrian Parliament, the National Council, passed a law to raise the residence requirement for naturalisation for recognised refugees from six to ten years. While the residence requirement for ordinary naturalisation in Austria is ten years, until now refugees have enjoyed Read More …
The Working Paper: Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship? edited by Liav Orgad and Rainer Bauböck and based on a recent GLOBALCIT forum debate is now published in CADMUS.
