Béla Markó, Romanian Vice Prime Minister and former leader of the UDMR, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, said on Saturday that he does not agree with the proposal that Romanian Hungarians should vote in parliamentary elections in Hungary Read More …
From: Euro|topics Press review of 28/06/2011 Tears of joy over nationalised Hungarians Around 100,000 Hungarians living outside their home country have received Hungarian citizenship since last year, a spokesman for the right-wing conservative government of Viktor Orbán announced on Monday. Read More …
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter announced key changes to the citizenship application procedure. The Government has decided to institute a formal ceremony to give proper recognition to the importance of becoming a citizen but not to introduce citizenship tests for Read More …
Read the report “Deux nationalités, une colère” in Libération (in French).
By Helena Wray, Middlesex University This recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), formerly the European Court of Justice (ECJ), raises questions about the relationship between EU citizenship (as provided by Art.20 Treaty on the Read More …
Since the nationality act began on January 1 2009, allowing citizens of five years or more to apply for Luxembourgish nationality, only 0.3% of applicants were refused the passport. Read the full article by the Luxembourgish Internet broadcaster News 352
The processing times for applications to acquire Irish citizenship may take up to four-and-a-half years, a study by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) found. The research examined the experience of 315 migrants from more than 60 countries and a Read More …
by Stephen Coutts On Thursday the 5th of May the Court of Justice handed down its judgment in the case of McCarthy v Secretary of State. Concerning an attempt by an EU citizen to rely on EU law to obtain Read More …
By Maarten Vink, University of Maastricht Recent survey data from the Netherlands show that over 60 percent in the Dutch over-18 population oppose the concept of dual nationality, in particular lower educated and over-45s. Three in every five people in Read More …
Read the press release by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the Judgment in Case C-434/09 Shirley McCarthy v Secretary of State for the Home Department Read the Judgment of the Court
