By EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director Rainer Bauböck After a very narrow victory for a party coalition of Socialdemocrats and Greens in recent elections in Lower Saxony, Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD’s chancellor candidate for the next federal elections, announced that in case Read More …
By Italy Country expert Guido Tintori Access to citizenship by ius soli for second generation immigrants in Italy is quite restrictive. According to the law (Act. 91/1992) a person born in Italy from foreign parents can apply for citizenship by Read More …
An additional report by Ramutė Ruškytė on the recent changes in citizenship law and policy is now online on the Country Profile for Lithuania.
Read the article on the Guardian online.
Read the article in SofiaGlobe.com.
By Italy country expert Guido Tintori (editor of Il voto degli altri. Rappresentanza e scelte elettorali degli italiani all’estero [The Vote of Others. Political Representation and Electoral Participation of the Italians abroad], 2012) Italian Erasmus students are currently mobilising on Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Joachim Stern and Gerd Valchars The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) announced today the annulment of Austria’s anachronistic and discriminatory denial of citizenship iure sanguinis to children of Austrian fathers born out of wedlock (Judgmenet of Nov Read More …
The idea of allowing Estonians to have dual citizenship was thrown back into the national spotlight yesterday when the Ministry of Interior sent the Cabinet a proposal to allow such citizenship if it is obtained at birth. Read the full Read More …
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) applauds Ukraine’s steps towards ratification of the two UN Conventions on Statelessness, as the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the legislation on accession on 13 January 2013. Read the news item on the website of the United Read More …
Read the news item in the Voice of Russia.
