The President of Lithuania recently declared that he was in favour of organising a referendum on dual citizenship, following recent news reports that a number of Lithuanian expatriates were being stripped of their citizenship after having acquired a foreign nationality. Read More …
By Stéphanie Pouessel (Jean Monnet Fellow, EUI) A key symbol of the democratic turn, the new Tunisian Constitution passed in January 2014 acknowledges the role of Tunisians living abroad, who represent about 10% of the population. Two articles Read More …
By Thorbjorn Bjornsson The Althing (the Icelandic Parliament), on 27 December 2013, adopted Act no. 145/2013 on the Amendment of Various Acts Due to the Assignment of Tasks from the Ministry of Interior to District Commissioners and Specialised Agencies (hereafter, the Read More …
The Wall Street Journal reports on the growing trend in Europe of granting residency status – and in some instances, citizenship – to foreign investors. Read the news report in The Wall Street Journal and download the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Working Read More …
The paper develops the nucleus of a quantitative tool for the comparative assessment of democracies with respect to the electoral inclusion of immigrants (IMIX). The IMIX is then systematically applied to 22 European democracies. The results make clear that the Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Vesco Paskalev According to an investigation published in the Bulgarian weekly “Capital”, facilitated naturalisation of persons claiming Bulgarian origin from the neighbouring states is rampant with corruption. As a matter of law citizenship is granted Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Sampo Brander The Committee of Ministers of the Finnish Government wants to find out which government posts and tasks could be compromised by the loyalty and fidelity of officials holding dual citizenship. Read the Read More …
Political theorists hardly ever use empirical data when they discuss the problem of irregular migration. This article tries to fill this gap by engaging with sociological records provided by the CLANDESTINO project, which has produced country reports of data and Read More …
European Union law has developed a concept of Union citizenship based on a right of exit from one’s country and a consequential right of entry in another Member State of the Union. ‘Empowering’ European citizens and enabling them to integrate Read More …
This special issue of IDENTITIES critically discusses the contemporary validity of national models of immigrant integration in Europe. A variety of authors systematically compare the differences and similarities of their integration models in seven European countries. Although the importance of Read More …
