By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Luicy Pedroza. The Bremen Constitutional Court (Bremer Staatsgerichtshof) will decide on January 31, 2014, whether the law proposal (Gesetz zur Ausweitung des Wahlrechts) that would give voting rights to foreign residents (at state-level elections for EU-citizens, Read More …
Read the news report in Romania Insider, 29 November 2013, by Shaun Turton. Read the Eurostat News Release of 27 November 2013 here and a note on the overall trend in granting citizenship here. For more information on Acquisition of citizenship statistics from Eurostat Read More …
In recent decades millions of people have migrated to the democracies of North America and Western Europe. Some of these immigrants have become citizens of their new homelands, while others remain foreign residents. This article shows that the family context Read More …
The EUDO CITIZENSHP team presented the final results of the ACIT project on Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Immigrant Integration at the 10th meeting of the European Integration Forum (EIF) on 27-28 November in Brussels. The ACIT European Read More …
Read the newly published Scottish Government’s White Paper on Scotland’s Future. (Plans on citizenship are elaborated on pages 271-273). Read a commentary by EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director Jo Shaw on Open Democracy. Read a previous EUDO CITIZENSHIP news item on Citizenship Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP collaborator Laura Block, 27 November 2013. In their final round of coalition talks on 27 November, Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) reached a compromise on toleration of dual citizenship, which had been one of Read More …
New statistics from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, show that in 2011, 783 100 persons acquired citizenship of an EU27 Member State, down by 4% compared with 2010. This decline, which occurred after three consecutive years of increase, is mainly Read More …
Although the number of external voters has increased significantly in the past decades, the normative and political dilemmas of absentee voting still receive little scholarly attention. The few theoretical attempts that try to analyze systematically non-resident political rights from a Read More …
We examine how different formal citizenship regimes fare in achieving the political inclusion of immigrants and their children by looking at voting turnout in local elections. We analyse survey data from four European cities that grant voting rights to foreigners Read More …
Ayelet Shachar and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Should Citizenship be for Sale?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2014/01. Read More …
