On 11 September 2014, the Maltese Prime Minister defended the country’s controversial citizenship programme for foreign investors at the Global Citizenship Conference in New York. Read the news reports in Malta Today and Malta Independent and consult the Prime Minister’s full speech. Download the Read More …
More than four million people – which represents 97% of the eligible population, have registered to vote in next week’s independence referendum, a record number for any Scottish election. Read the news report in STV News and The Independent and download Read More …
In a bill currently under discussion in the National Assembly, the French government proposes to facilitate naturalisation procedures for senior applicants who can document at least 25 years of residence in France. However, several MPs from the centre-right party UMP, Read More …
As of 12 September 2014, the State Department will raise the fee for renunciating U.S. citizenship from USD 450 to USD 2,350, which is the full cost incurred by the administration for delivering the service. Read the news report Read More …
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Sampo Brander The Minister of Interior Päivi Räsänen announced an inquiry into the conditions of access to dual citizenship and the number of dual citizens currently residing in Finland. According to YLE, the Ministry is in fact Read More …
Read the news report on the website of the Russian Legal Information Agency. For further reflections on foreign investors programmes throughout Europe, consult our Forum Debate and Working Paper: Should Citizenship be for Sale?
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Gerd Valchars In a parliamentary written question to the Austrian Ministry of Interior Members of Parliament tried to find out the names of those naturalised Austrians, who earlier this year received Austrian citizenship “by reason Read More …
BY EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert for Ukraine Oxana Shevel. On August 14, two MPs from the nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom) registered in the Ukrainian Parliament an amendment to the law on citizenship. The proposed amendment adds a paragraph to Article Read More …
Read the news report in Russia Beyond the Headlines
Read the news report in the Globe and Mail.
