Survey in 7 EU states finds most immigrants interested in naturalisation as a means towards integration
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Voting rights of foreigners debated in the French electoral campaign
Read the article on the role that Françoise Hollande’s proposal to enfranchise resident migrants at the local level is playing in the presidential electoral campaign in France.
Austrian Naturalisation Test Incorrect
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert, Gerd Valchars Austrian academics have recently criticized the country’s naturalisation test and official preparation material as faulty and incorrect. Historian Ernst Bruckmüller (University of Vienna) argues the preparatory script misdates several historic events and presents facts Read More …
Romania naturalises far more Moldavians than Bulgaria naturalises Macedonians
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More US American expatriates renounce their citizenship to avoid income tax
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Cost-free and easier access to Serbian citizenship for ethnic Serbs in neighbouring countries
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Spain gains almost 250.000 new citizens thanks to Historical Memory Act
By Roxana Barbalescu, EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Almost a quarter million descendants of Spanish citizens (241.763) have been granted Spanish nationality following the ‘Historical Memory Act’ no 52/2007 from 26 of December – better known as the ‘grandchildren’s law’. The purpose Read More …
ECtHR decides that lack of Greek legislation to implement right to vote from abroad does not violate human rights
Read the ECtHR press release on the case Sitaropoulos and Others v. Greece and the full judgment of 15 March 2012.
A claim against the Slovak Republic filed to the ECtHR by a 100 year old woman
The Association Council for Human Dignity is assisting a Hungarian retiree living in Slovakia and her daughter to submit a case to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg concerning her loss of citizenship of the Slovak Republic. The Read More …
New Slovak government plans to limit withdrawal of citizenship in case of acquisition of a foreign nationality
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dagmar Kusa SMER, the recent winner of the early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, has announced changes to the citizenship law that will limit the withdrawal of Slovak citizenship from those voluntarily acquiring the citizenship of another Read More …