The idea of allowing Estonians to have dual citizenship was thrown back into the national spotlight yesterday when the Ministry of Interior sent the Cabinet a proposal to allow such citizenship if it is obtained at birth. Read the full Read More …
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) applauds Ukraine’s steps towards ratification of the two UN Conventions on Statelessness, as the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the legislation on accession on 13 January 2013. Read the news item on the website of the United Read More …
Read the news item in the Voice of Russia.
Hungary’s government is going to streamline the naturalisation of applicants for Hungarian citizenship. Read the article on Politics.hu and the news item on EWSI.
Read the report in the Guardian and an article in Le Temps (in French).
By EUDO citizenship expert Andrea Baršová On 16 January 2013, the Constitutional Law Committee of the Czech Chamber of Deputies (the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament) will discuss the draft citizenship bill. The bill, introduced by the government to Read More …
Read the article in the Figaro and a special report on Gérard Depardieu’s case (both in French).
President Vladimir Putin in his state-of-the-nation address Wednesday called for legislative amendments simplifying the process of obtaining Russian citizenship, amendments that could allow millions of people to receive Russian passports. Read the article of the The Moscow Times.
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert, Jelena Dzankic While the epidemic of the economic crisis is still troubling Europe, many of the Old Continent’s countries seek out creative ways to secure a much needed injection of capital into their struggling economies. Investor Read More …
By Alan Desmond, PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. In a report on citizenship acquisition in Ireland issued last year, the Immigrant Council of Ireland highlighted a number of issues which make the process of Read More …
