According to a recent report by the Council of Europe the tensions between Lativia’s ethnic groups are exacerbated by the country’s citizenship policies. Read more details in Human Rights Europe.
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Espen D. H. Olsen, Arena, University of Oslo The Norwegian Citizenship has been revised in 2012 and 2013. This brief note summarizes both amendments. In 2012, minor procedural revisions to the Norwegian Citizenship Law were passed by the Norwegian Parliament Read More …
Just 31 investment proposals have been approved through the Government’s cash-for-visas scheme since it was launched nearly two years ago.
Read more details in the Independent.
Britain deprived 20 fighters in Syria who have another nationality of their UK citizenship. According to the Home Office “citizenship is a privilege, not a right, and the Home Secretary will remove British citizenship from individuals where she feels it Read More …
After series of talks with the opposition and stakeholders and numerous concerns voiced from abroad, the Maltese government announced significant amendments of its Investor Citizenship Scheme. The overall investment under the new requirements raises to €1,150,000 (from €650,000 under the original proposal), Read More …
Since Belgium introduced its stringent new requirements for naturalisation (applicants must now demonstrate ‘exceptional merits’ in order to qualify) this year the number of applications drastically fell. According to a recent press report there were only 508 applications from the Read More …
Spain mobilizes 3000 notaries in a bid to speed up the naturalisation procedure for 575,000 applicants and some 60,000 new Spaniards have taken an oath of allegiance since June 2013. Read the full story in El Mundo, featured on the European Web Read More …
The Estonian Ministry of the Internal Affairs releases a comparative study discussing the arguments for or against the simultaneous possession of different citizenship and finds these in favour insufficient. The study is featured on the European Web Site for Read More …
Read the question posed to the Council by Judith Sargentini, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Hélène Flautre, Franziska Keller, Ulrike Lunacek, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. Consult our earlier news on the growing trend of offering Read More …
Read an interesting comment on the Maltese ‘citizenship for sale’ scheme in The Independent. Consult our earlier news on the growing trend of offering citizenship to foreign investors in EU Member States. ‘Should Citizenship be for Sale’? Earlier this Read More …
