By EUDO Citizenship author Dejan Stjepanovic On 26 October 2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina ratified an agreement on dual citizenship with Croatia. The agreement was adopted in 2007 but had failed to be ratified by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency in Read More …
On 21 October 2011 the Croatian Parliament adopted the Law on Relations between the Republic of Croatia and Croats outside the Republic of Croatia. The law was based on the government’s strategy adopted in May 2011. The law distinguishes between Read More …
The Interior Ministry has been preparing a new bill that toughens the conditions for granting Czech citizenship. Read the draft law (in Czech) and the report in Prague Daily Monitor (in English). Take note that the law should enter into Read More …
Read the press release and the full judgment by the European Court of Human Rights.
by EUDO Citizenship country expert Jelena Dzankic (Also available at www.citsee.eu) When Montenegro received its candidate country status in November 2010, the European Commission (EC) recommended that the country fulfil seven conditions before opening accession talks. The requirement that Read More …
By EUDO Citizenship country expert Dagmar Kusa In May 2010 the Slovak parliament adopted an amendment to its citizenship law that provides for withdrawal of Slovak citizenship in case of voluntary acquisition of a foreign nationality. This law was widely Read More …
By EUDO Citizenship country expert Shushanik Makaryan On September 15, in its four-day session, the National Assembly of Armenia discussed and adopted in the first reading new amendments to Armenia’s citizenship law. Given the overwhelming support majority of the deputies Read More …
According to the UN, some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country and are being denied basic human rights as a result. Read the report on BBC news.
Read the report in the Helsinki Times
Thomas Hammarberg the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights said stateless Roma who have settled in a host country for seven to eight years or more should be granted citizenship there, starting with their children. Read the interview on Read More …
