In the wake of the November 13 terrorist attack, French president François Hollande decided to reinforce France’s security legislation. In addition to a raft of police and intelligence measures, he proposed two major constitutional revisions: the first was to “constitutionalize” the state of emergency, previously an ad hoc piece of legislation; the second was to formalize the conditions under which French citizens can be stripped of their nationality.
The research monograph We the Burden: Equal Citizenship and Its Limits in EU Law is a critical study of the scope of EU citizenship as an ‘equal status’ of all Member State nationals. The book re-conceptualises the relationship between the Read More …
In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he transformed not only his own, but the very ideal of empire and statehood in Europe. This volume first inquires Read More …
The French president François Hollande has dropped the draft legislation aimed at stripping convicted terrorists who are also dual nationals of their French passports and deporting them. The draft constitutional provisions had caused divisions within the president’s ruling Socialist party Read More …
The Parliament of Uruguay has approved a law that naturalises not only children (as is the case at present) but also grandchildren born to Uruguayans who have settled abroad. This will enable the said persons to vote, in case they Read More …
The former president of Romania Traian Basescu and his wife are seeking the citizenship of Moldova. They base their decision of shared origins with the Moldovan people. Around half a million of Moldovan citizens benefitted from Romania’s external citizenship policy Read More …
Floris de Witte, Rainer Bauböck and Jo Shaw (eds.): Freedom of movement under attack: Is it worth defending as the core of EU citizenship?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2016/69. Read More …
This book looks at how Europeanisation affects the link between citizenship and governance in and across the new states of South East Europe. Contributors unpack the intimate relationship between the European Union, national governments, and citizens through a tripartite model Read More …
Europeans living abroad think it would be easier to vote in their country of origin if they could vote at the embassy or consulate (74%) or via electronic or online elections (71%). Read more here, and consult our electoral rights Read More …
Citizenship status is meant to be secure, that is, inviolable. Recently, however, several democratic states have adopted or are considering adopting laws that allow them the power to revoke citizenship. This claimed right forces us to consider whether citizenship can Read More …
