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 …
By Samuel D. Schmid, GLOBALCIT Collaborator Non-citizens whose grandparents immigrated to Switzerland – so-called “3rd generation foreigners” – can soon naturalise more easily. 60.4 percent of Swiss voters approved the new constitutional provision in a mandatory referendum. Polls indicated that Read More …
According to the US Treasury department, a total of 5,411 people renounced their American citizenship in 2016, including the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. This is a record number of nationality renunciations in the US, and is 26% higher Read More …
The President of Finland Sauli Niinistö proposed that the country reconsidered its dual citizenship policy introduced in 2003. The President maintains that the situation has changed since the introduction of the policy, originally aimed at integrating the Finns returning from Read More …
On 12 February 2017, the Swiss electorate will be called to the polls to vote in a referendum on a legislation aiming at facilitating access to citizenship for so-called ‘third generation’ foreign youth, that is the grandsons and granddaughters of Read More …
Political scientists have written an open letter in which they reject Donald Trump’s claim that millions of non-citizens voted in the November 2016 presidential elections. To support the claim, the U.S. President has cited a 2014 article by Jesse Richman, Read More …
The European Commission has published its third EU Citizenship Report, focusing on the progress in the exercise of EU citizenship rights since 2014 and presenting actions aimed at enhancing citizens’ awareness on how to fully enjoy these rights. The report Read More …
