Two months after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Ireland introduced a new policy, whereby citizenship applicants must not have been absent from Ireland for more than six weeks in the year preceding the application. This rule may Read More …
Julian Assange has received Ecuadorian nationality in December 2017. Following this, Ecuador following then purported, in January, to grant him the status of a diplomat in the UK. This gave rise to new claims that the UK now has the Read More …
The US government treats the twin sons of a gay couple differently. The twins were born to an anonymous egg-donor and two fathers: one US citizen and one Israeli citizen. The couple married in Canada, where the twins were born. Read More …
Maurizio Ferrera and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Should EU citizenship be duty-free? EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2017/60. Link to publication details and abstract.
The sale of citizenship has been on the increase in recent years. Since 2008, the Union of Comoros has practiced the sale of its passports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait, both of which have large populations of Read More …
By Sam Schmid, GLOBALCIT collaborator Non-citizen residents who want to naturalise in Switzerland face new rules as of January 1st, 2018. Besides one marginal liberalisation, the new law introduces more stringent conditions. The main aim of the law is to Read More …
By Ana Rita Gil, GLOBALCIT Country Expert In December 2017 media sources reported a record number of acquisitions of the Portuguese citizenship in 2016, based on new data from Statistics Portugal (INE). According to these statistics, the number of persons Read More …
By Gerd Valchars, GLOBALCIT country expert The new Austrian government, a coalition of the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) sworn in on 18 December 2017, presented their plans for the next five years. The 180-page Read More …
GLOBALCIT co-director Maarten Vink took part in Bilbao European dialogues, where he delivered a speech on Citizenship and the Socio-economic and Political Integration of Refugees.
The number of persons who have been granted Hungarian citizenship on grounds of ethnic kinship. The programme has been approved by the Orban parliament in 2010. In the 2014 elections, 95% of Hungarians naturalised through ethnic kinship voted Victor Orban’s Read More …
