In November 2010, France asked to delay the Schengen accession for Bulgaria and Romania until summer 2010, when the European Commission is expected to present its annual report on the fight against corruption and organised crime in the two countries. Read More …
At the beginning of November 2010, acting on EU request, Montenegro has announced a freeze in its business citizenship offer. Read the article “Montenegro freezes business citizenship offer” by Bloomberg Businessweek
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director Jo Shaw. In October 2010, the European Commission issued a number of important reports in the area of Citizenship, backing these up with a number of Eurobarometer surveys on EU citizenship, cross-border mobility and the exercise Read More …
On 4 November 2010, the Federal Commission for Immigration Issues published policy recommendations under the title: ‘”Citoyenneté” – Redefinir la participation, “Citoyenneté” – Partizipation neu denken (“Citizenship” – Redefining Participation). The Commission makes three main recommendations: (1) Kantons should introduce Read More …
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an article of which introduces a change in the citizenship law: naturalised citizens can have their French citizenship withdrawn within Read More …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
