By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Ricky van Oers (Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands). On 1 March 2013, I publicly defended my PhD research entitled ‘Deserving Citizenship. Citizenship Tests in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom’. In Read More …
The centre right party UMP, currently in opposition, proposes to restrict the acquisition of French nationality through jus soli in a new Bill to be presented at the National Assembly in the near future. The proposal came in the Read More …
Until very recently emigrants were considered an embarrassment, an irritation or an irrelevance by most states. The long experience of emigrant engagement in certain historical emigration countries, such as Italy, was very much the exception. Since about 2000, countries around Read More …
On September 25 2013 the RSE hosted a public discussion seminar on the impacts of constitutional change upon borders, immigration and citizenship. The seminar examined how constitutional change might affect the citizenship rights and status of those living within and Read More …
Read the ECRI report on Malta (in English) published on 15 October. Read the news report, including the Maltese government’s response, in Malta Today.
Read the EESC’s draft opinion.
The report by Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) dealing with nationality-related issues, was adopted on 2 October 2013 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Legal Affairs Committee. The report notes that the trend in several Council of Read More …
Read the news report in Times of Malta and Malta Today. Watch the Prime Minister’s comment on the new scheme. On the fact that the names of those who buy citizenship will not be published, read the news report in Malta Read More …
Read the news report in The New York Times.
Read the testimonies in BBC News.
