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Ukraine grants citizenship to three ministers who are foreign nationals

Posted onDecember 3, 2014July 28, 2017

  By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Oxana Shevel   Today the president of Ukraine signed a decree granting Ukrainian citizenship to three foreign nationals who were offered positions in the new Ukrainian government (who are U.S., Georgian, and Lithuanian citizens, respectively). Read More …

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Germany: Survey founds that one third of the grandchildren of Italian and Turkish immigrants does not have have German citizenship

Posted onDecember 1, 2014December 21, 2017

A representative survey conducted by University of Konstanz and presented by Integration Minister Bilkay Öney (SPD) on 28 November shows that about one third among the grandchildren of Turkish and Italian immigrants in Germany does not have German citizenship and Read More …

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Spain grants citizenship to ‘Ebola heroes’

Posted onNovember 24, 2014July 28, 2017

Read the news report in The Local. 

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Russians become the first nationality to be granted Bulgarian citizenship in 2012

Posted onNovember 19, 2014July 28, 2017

By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Vesco Paskalev According to Eurostat, Bulgarian authorities granted Bulgarian (and EU) citizenship to 1700 applicants in 2012, with the biggest share of them – nearly one quarter – originating from Russia. Traditionally the greatest numbers were Read More …

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How the diaspora vote became the decisive factor in the election of the first non-ethnic Romanian President

Posted onNovember 19, 2014July 28, 2017

  SPECIAL EUDO CITIZENSHIP NEWS REPORT on Romanian Presidential elections By  Andrei Stavila   1. Context The Romanian presidential campaign this year has often been characterised by analysts as the most monotonous, non-conflictual political campaign in the last 25 years. Read More …

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EU28 Member States granted citizenship to almost 820,000 persons in 2012

Posted onNovember 19, 2014

According to EUROSTAT, EU28 Member States granted citizenship to almost 820,000 persons in 2014, a total figure up by 4% compared to 2012.  Read the Eurostat news release. 

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UK: Alleged extremist stripped of citizenship appeals to Supreme Court

Posted onNovember 18, 2014July 28, 2017

A Muslim convert, stripped of his British citizenship because of alleged extremism in 2011, is appealing to the Supreme Court that he has been left stateless. Read the news report in BBC News and access our current Forum Debate on Read More …

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The EU Court of Justice delivered a judgment with far reaching implications on free movements and social benefits of economically inactive EU citizens

Posted onNovember 14, 2014

In a recent judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that economically inactive EU citizens who go to another Member State solely in order to obtain social assistance may be excluded from certain social benefits.  Read the Read More …

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Malta: First passports granted under the controversial Individual Investor Programme

Posted onNovember 14, 2014June 8, 2017

  Read the news report in the Times of Malta and consult the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Forum Debate ‘Should Citizenship be for Sale‘? 

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Lithuanian President supports referendum on dual citizenship

Posted onNovember 14, 2014July 28, 2017

The President of Lithuania recently declared that he was in favour of organising a referendum on dual citizenship, following recent news reports that a number of Lithuanian expatriates were being stripped of their citizenship after having acquired a foreign nationality.  Read More …

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