Electoral participation of immigrants is an important issue in Europe, particularly because immigrants vote less often than natives. This may suggest a lack of political integration and might result in proportionally lower representation in parliament, in turn affecting democratic legitimacy. Read More …
Since 2012, applicants for naturalisation in the Netherlands must produce a birth certificate. This rule also applies to refugees, many of whom do not have such documents. Read the news report in Dutch News.
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Maria Teresa Zegada and Jean-Michel Lafleur On 12th October 2014, Evo Morales was re-elected for a third term as President following a large victory in the general elections. For the second time Bolivians residing abroad Read More …
How are elections affected by the votes of people living abroad? The majority of states now allow extra-territorial voting in some form, but the research literature on this topic remains underdeveloped. Moreover, even though extra-territorial voting raises issues about the Read More …
A 75-year-old US citizen who taught as a professor at ETH Zurich was denied Swiss citizenship after local officials in the municipality of Einsielden ruled he did not know enough about the region where he has lived for 39 years. Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dimitris Christopoulos In 2013, a group of retired military officers and a Greek citizen demanded the nullification of a Decision by the Minister of Defense (April 15th 2011) allowing all Greek citizens to take the Read More …
Audrey Macklin and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2015/14. Read More …
In Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere, Olivier Vonk provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the grounds for acquisition and loss of citizenship in the thirty-five independent countries in the Americas and the Caribbean. Employing a typology developed Read More …
In an increasingly grim economic context, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new decree loosening the conditions of acquisition of Russian citizenship for foreign investors and entrepreneurs. Read the news report in the Moscow Times.
The Estonian government has approved a legislative proposal aiming at facilitating acquisition of citizenship for children and the elderly. Read the news report in ERR (in English).
