The law on dual citizenship adopted in Parliament in June came into effect on 1 September. As of today, applicants to Danish citizenship will no longer have to renounce their citizenship of origin. Meanwhile, all Danes who already gave Read More …
The number of of foreigners acquiring Czech citizenship through naturalisation has almost doubled in 2014, as sharp rise mainly due to a 2013 reform of the nationality law allowing naturalised citizens to retain their citizenship of origin. Read the Read More …
This paper examines globalization’s effect on the collection of international migration statistics, specifically related to an associated rise in dual citizenship. While dual citizen- ship has grown in recent decades, there has been little empirical research to measure its size, Read More …
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Between 2009 and 2014, 26,000 persons have acquired Luxembourgish citizenship, a sharp increase compared to earlier periods. Most naturalised citizens are in fact former citizens and their descendants residing in Belgium or France who ‘recovered’ their nationality in the wake Read More …
Malta has adopted a points system to allow citizenship applicants for the Individual Investor Program (IIP) to reduce the time they have to spend in Malta in order to be considered “effective residents” as per the program requirements, www.investinimmigration.com reports. Read Read More …
Thousands of people – continental Europeans in Britain as well as UK citizens abroad – are so alarmed at the potential impact of a British exit from the European Union on their lives that they are applying for a second Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu (Bogazici University, Istanbul) and Aslı Okyay (European University Institute, Florence) Voting from abroad refers to “provisions and procedures which enable some or all electors of a country who are temporarily or permanently outside the Read More …
The denial of voting rights to certain types of persons continues to be a moral problem of practical significance. The disenfranchisement of persons with mental impairments, minors, noncitizen residents, nonresident citizens, and criminal offenders is a matter of controversy in Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Vesco Paskalev On 28 July the National Assembly approved a proposal of the President for referendum on the introduction of electronic voting in all elections. The referendum will be held along with the local Read More …
