The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted on 9 December 2009 the Recommendation (2009)13 on the nationality of children. The Recommendation deals with the nationality status of children and aims in particular at reducing statelessness for children. Read More …
The validity of the current Lithuanian Provisional Law on Citizenship was extended until July 1, 2010 in response to the failure of the Lithuanian unicameral Parliament, known as Seimas, to adopt a new Law on Citizenship by the end of Read More …
On December 14th, the new citizenship bill was drastically amended by the Constitutional Committee of the Chamber of Deputies following proposals by Isabella Bertolini, an MP of Berlusconi’s party Popolo delle Libertà (see). The most interesting aspect is that the Read More …
On 22 December 2009, the European Court of Human Rights decided in favour of applications brought by members of the Roma and the Jewish communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alleging racial and ethnic discrimination because the rules of the post-Dayton Read More …
From:Statistics Netherlands 15 December 2009 by Han Nicolaas On 1 January 2009, just over 1.1 million people in the Netherlands had at least one other nationality alongside the Dutch nationality. This is nearly three times the number on 1 January Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Costica Dumbrava Traian Basescu won the second round of the Romanian 2009 presidential election by a margin of 71.000 votes after receiving 115.831 of the votes cast abroad (78.86 percent of the total). The support for Read More …
News summary by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dimitris Christopoulos “My government will suggest the acquisition of the Greek nationality by birth for every individual born on Greek territory,” said the Greek Prime Minister Geórgios Papandréou jr. at the International Migration Forum. Read More …
The information service Focus Migration has published a new policy brief on “Dual citizenship- the discourse on ethnic and political boundary-making in Germany”. Abstract: Discussions on the permissibility of dual citizenship play a special role in social discourse. In addition Read More …
An article by the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul shows that after the simplification of the procedures for granting Romanian citizenship to former citizens in 2007, the numbers of acquisitions have risen steadily from 200 in 2007 and 4000-4200 in 2008 to Read More …
The Minister for the Bulgarians Abroad disclosed his plan for theamendment of citizenship law. The main points of the proposal includea facilitated procedure for the naturalisation of foreigners whograduate from Bulgarian universities as well as the restoration ofcitizenship to former Read More …
