by EUDO CITIZENSHIP consortium members Mária M. Kovács and Szabolcs Pogonyi “The current Constitution ties voting rights to permanent residence in Hungary. We do not want to uphold this provision”, Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP country expert Christophe Bertossi On 12 October 2010, the French Parliament passed a new law on immigration, an article of which introduces a change in the citizenship law: naturalised citizens can have their French citizenship withdrawn within Read More …
An analysis by EUDO CITIZENSHIP Advisory Board member Kees Groenendijk The coalition agreement of October 2010 between the two governing parties Freedom and Democracy (VVD), led by prime-minister Mark Rutte, and the Christian-Democrats (CDA), on the one hand, and the Read More …
EUDO CITIZENSHIP advisory board member André Liebich comments in Le Temps on the Hungarian-Slovak controversy over dual citizenship. Read the commentary “En Europe, la citoyenneté reste un terrain miné” (in French).
A Dutch-Iranian woman, Zahra Bahrami, has been imprisoned in Iran since December 2009 on suspicion of subversion. The woman, who holds a Dutch passport, was arrested while visiting one of her children in the country. According to the Dutch foreign Read More …
In 2010 Romania has granted citizenship to 17,000 Moldovans, Romanian President Traian Basescu announced. More than half a million Moldovans work in EU countries, most of them on the black labour market, he admitted. Read the article by Euroactive
by EUDO CITIZENSZHIP collaborator Roxana Barbulescu 7.5 percent of Estonia’s population of 1.3 million holds an Estonian “alien passaport”, according to an article published by the New York Times on August 15, 2010. These people, mostly ethnic Russians, are stateless Read More …
On August 14, 2010, the Bulgarian newspaper Standart News reported the reply of the Bulgarian Diaspora Minister Bozhidar Dimitrov to a UK complain before Brussels concerning the high number of citizenship granted by Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. These “new” European Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Judit Tóth
12 August 2010
As reported by EUDO CITIZENSHIP, the Hungarian Parliament has recently passed an amendment to the Hungarian Citizenship Act that provides for a preferential and accelerated naturalisation of Hungarians who are descendants of former citizens. There is no more requirement that such applicants for Hungarian citizenship have to reside in Hungary. This news item summarises a recently issued government decree on the implementation of this accelerated naturalisation procedure.
Historian and citizenship expert Patrick Weil responds to Nicolas Sarkozy’s and Brice Hortefeux’s proposal to deprive naturalised immigrants who attack police officers of their French citizenship Read the article in French published by Le Monde on 2 August 2010: Patrick Read More …
