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 …
by EUDO Citizenship country expert Gëzim Krasniqi Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008 was vehemently opposed by Serbia. In consequence, the new country’s attempts to exercise sovereignty throughout its territory, as well as to take its place in the international Read More …
By Gianluca P. Parolin, EUDO Citizenship expert for Egypt Arab state authorities have quite consistently refused to naturalise Palestinians or their offspring in a move to allegedly protect Palestinian identity from vanishing with full integration in the host countries, often Read More …
By Guita Hourani, Director of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center, Notre Dame University, Lebanon President Michel Suleiman has recently signed two decrees (Decrees 6690 and 6691 dated 28 October 2011) withdrawing Lebanese citizenship from 53 persons in the first decree Read More …
Summary by Roxana Barbulescu of a report in Corriere della Sera Immigrant associations have lobbied for many years for a reform of the Italian nationality law that would grant citizenship to children born in the country of foreign parents. Now Read More …
By Sampo Brander, EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert for Finland The long version of this commentary is available here. The Finnish Nationality Act was amended on 1 September 2011. The most important changes concern the required period of residence in Finland and Read More …
By Anja Lansbergen, EUDO CITIZENSHIP consortium member 15 November 2011: Case C-256/11, Dereci and others v Bundesministerium für Inneres ECJ decides that third country national family members of static EU citizens will derive a right of residence in a Member Read More …
Summary by Oriane Calligaro of the study published in Info migrations (full text in French available here) 1. Summary In 2010, the increase of the annual numbers of acquisition of French citizenship – 143 275 new French citizens – is Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Andrea Baršová In line with its statement of 4 August 2010, the Czech government established after the 2010 parliamentary elections to the Chamber of Deputies proceeds with the work on the new citizenship law.[1] The new Read More …
Summary by Roxana Barbulescu of the article on Elpais.com (full text in Spanish available here) On 1 November 2011 the conservative party in Spain, the Popular Party announced in its electoral programme that if they win the elections scheduled for Read More …
