Podcast: “Citizenship: An idea”
Globalcit co-director Rainer Bauböck takes part in the debate “Citizenship: An idea” broadcast on Australian ABC. Listen to the podcast here.
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More EU citizens, but fewer non-EU citizens applying for UK citizenship since the Brexit
The UK migration statistics have now been published. They indicate that there has been a drop in net migration in the country in the 12 months following the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Regarding citizenship, overall fewer people are Read More …
Australian High Court rules that dual citizens are ineligible to sit in Parliament
The High Court of Australia ruled that the country’s deputy Prime Minister and four senators were ineligible to sit in Parliament as “subjects or citizen of a foreign power”. Two other Australian senators who had inherited foreign citizenship (Italian and Read More …
New amendments to the law on Romanian citizenship
The Emergency Government Order 65/2017 amending the law on Romanian citizenship came into force on 25 September 2017. The main reason for the modification was to clarify the procedure with regard to the citizenship status of children of persons who acquire or Read More …
Cambodian Ministry of Interior identifies 70,000 ‘improper’ citizens, mostly ethnic Vietnamese
The Ministry of Interior of Cambodia is planning to revoke citizenship of 70,000 individuals, most of whom are ethnic Vietnamese born in Cambodia. To move ahead with the plan, the Minister of Interior held a meeting to discuss the withdrawal Read More …
Dutch Senate vetoes proposal to extend residency requirement naturalisation from 5 to 7 years
By Maarten Vink, GLOBALCIT co-director The Dutch Senate recently voted on a proposal to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation from the current five to seven years. This proposal was part of the coalition agreement of the outgoing government of the Read More …
UN report regards imposition of Russian citizenship in Crimea as a source of human rights violations
The recent report by the UN Human Rights Office regards the imposition of Russian citizenship in Crimea as a source of violations of human rights. “The citizenship issue has had a major impact on the lives of many residents of Read More …
Newly elected member of the Swiss government renounces Italian citizenship even though the law does not demand it
The Swiss parliament has elected Ignazio Cassis, a member of the Italian-speaking minority, to the seven-member Swiss cabinet on Wednesday. He will replace Didier Burkhalter on the multi-party government. Before the election, Cassis had been in the cross-hairs of the Read More …
Sierra Leone enacts citizenship amendments
The Parliament of Sierra Leone on amended the bill entitled “The Citizenship Amendment Act 2017” on 5 July 2017.The bill amends the Citizenship Act of 1973 to take into consideration the amendment made to the Citizenship Act in 2006 providing Read More …
Kazakhstan adopts Law on citizenship deprivation
The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev has signed into law a bill that would enable the authorities to annul the citizenship of people convicted of certain crimes related to terrorism and state security.The bill was previously passed in both chambers Read More …