On 10 May, the Federal Court ruled that citizens are entitled to a fair hearing by an independent decision-maker before they are deprived of their citizenship. The judge ruled that eight people who had been stripped of their Canadian citizenship Read More …
The GLOBALCIT team took part at the State of the Union conference, organised by the European University Institute (EUI). The State of the Union is an annual event for high-level reflection on the European Union (EU), and this year’s event Read More …
The government of Australia is planning to amend its citizenship law and introduce additional requirements for naturalisation. The proposed amendments would require applicants to be permanent residents in Australia for four years and to pass a new English language test. Read More …
By David de Groot, GLOBALCIT collaborator On 19 April, the Council of State sent a case for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union. It concerns the automatic loss of the Dutch nationality (thus including Read More …
By Denis Scuto (GLOBALCIT expert, Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg) After the Luxembourg nationality law of 23 October 2008 (from now on called LNL), which introduced double ius soli and the toleration of dual or Read More …
The UK-based civil rights organisation New Europeans has started a campaign to pass the ‘Votes for Life’ legislation before the next General Election. The legislation would enable the UK citizens resident abroad for over 15 years to vote in the Read More …
On 27 March 2017, the European Commission has registered the initiative “EU Citizenship for Europeans: United in Diversity in Spite of jus soli and jus sanguinis”. The initiative has the objective of proposing EU legislation that would “ensure that, following Read More …
The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko proposed amendments to the citizenship law to regard any person who voluntarily took another country’s citizenship as having waived their Ukrainian citizenship, this introducing a mechanism for automatic loss of Ukrainian citizenship. Some rights groups Read More …
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the UK’s policy of stripping terrorism suspects of their British citizenship and barring them from returning to the country is lawful. The case concerned a claim of a Sudan-born man Read More …
A record number of Dutch citizens residing abroad have registered to vote in the upcoming general elections of 15 March. According to national registration data, around 77.500 persons have registered to vote. In the general elections of 2012, less than Read More …
