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 …
Read the ECtHR press release on the case Sitaropoulos and Others v. Greece and the full judgment of 15 March 2012.
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 …
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 …
Like the Caribbean islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Dominica, Austria runs a citizenship-by-investment programme. Pursuant to article 10(6) of the Constitution of Austria, an individual may be granted Austrian citizenship at the discretion of authorities, whereby the common Read More …
Read the article on TheAfricaNews.com and our previous news item on this citizens’ initiative.
Read a background article and interview with Rainer Bauböck in Capital News Online.
By Christal Morehouse, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany As the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees prepares to publish a report this spring on so-called “Option Children”, it is really the country’s dual nationality regulations that must pass a “stress test”. The Read More …
By Maarten Vink, EUDO CITIZENSHIP Consortium member The Dutch government on Friday decided to press ahead with legislation aimed at reducing the number of people with dual citizenship, despite widespread opposition. The current minority government in the Netherlands consists Read More …
Read the article in the Irish Times. See also a previous news item about the granting of Austrian citizenship to children born by surrogate mothers.
