by Rainer Bauböck (EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director) On 14 December 2011 the Austrian Constitutional Court decided in a case involving an American surrogate mother who had given birth to two children whose genetic parents are Austrian citizens residing in Vienna. After Read More …
More than 850 non-EU parents of Irish-citizen children have been granted residency in Ireland since the landmark European court judgment last year. Read the full article in the Irish Times.
By our EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dorota Pudzianowska On 18 January 2012, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal will consider the new Polish nationality law (case no. Kp 5/09) at a public hearing. The Act of Parliament was referred to the Constitutional Tribunal Read More …
The government plans to launch an inquiry to study Swedish citizenship in hopes of finding ways to boost its value and use it as a tool for integration. Read the full article in The Local.
An increasing number of Russian citizens have begun to dig up their Estonian roots, getting an Estonian passport, and, along with that, the right to live anywhere in the EU and visa-free travel to the US.Read the article on the Read More …
The Czech Interior Ministry demands unnecessary formalities from young Vietnamese, mostly university students and graduates, who apply for Czech citizenship. Read the article in the Prague Daily Monitor.
Read the article in The Economist, discussing among others proposed restrictions on dual citizenship in the Netherlands. Read also this commentary in The Economist praising multiple citizenship.
Foreigners must take a tough new language test and swear allegiance to ‘French values.’ Critics call it a far-right ploy for votes in upcoming elections. Read the article by Kim Willsher in The Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2012.
By Guita Hourani, Director of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center of Notre Dame University, Lebanon Summary On December 12, 2011, the Council of Ministers in Lebanon unanimously approved the draft law extending the reacquisition of citizenship by descendants of Lebanese Read More …
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics said he had raised concern over Slovakia’s citizenship laws at a private meeting with the EU’s Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, arguing the law breached the Union’s charter of fundamental rights. For background information about Read More …
