Germany: German Poles to vote in upcoming elections via absentee ballot
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Italian government tries to facilitate ius soli-based naturalisation procedure
By EUDO Citizenship Italy country expert Guido Tintori. As reported in a previous news item, it remains difficult to predict whether the fragile broad coalition government led by Mr. Enrico Letta and sustained by the Democratic Party (PD), Mario Monti’s Read More …
EU Commissioner Malmström and Italian Minister Kyenge discuss ius soli
Listen to the interviews on Radio Il Sole 24 Ore.
Government asks ethnic Hungarians with dual citizenship to register for 2014 elections
Read the news report in The Wall Street Journal.
Bahrain: King expands grounds for withdrawal of citizenship
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Gianluca Parolin. The King of Bahrain, Hamad b. Issa Al Khalifa (1999-present), has expanded the grounds for withdrawal of Bahraini citizenship by Law-Decree on 31 July 2013. The list of grounds for withdrawal in the 1963 Citizenship Read More …
Romanian president wants to become Moldavian citizen after his period in office
Read the news report in Romanian Insider.
Turkey: government to restore citizenship of 1980 coup victims
Read the news report in Today’s Zaman.
UK Supreme Court confronts statelessness in Al-Jedda case
Read the news report by the European Network on Statelessness. Read the case note on B2 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 616by EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Helena Wray.
Spain: Ministry of Justice adopts exceptional measures to accelerate naturalisation procedures
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Alberto Martín Pérez In June 2012, the Spanish Minister of Justice charged 1,000 commercial and property registrars with the task of processing the ever-increasing number of pending applications for naturalisation. The Ministry of Justice –which up to Read More …
Iceland Parliament declines Snowden’s citizenship bid
Read the news report in Reuters.