In Europe, a variety of national policies regulate access to citizenship. This article analyses how citizenship policies affect naturalization rates among immigrants. Our analysis confirms that favourable citizenship policies positively affect naturalization rates, especially among first-generation immigrants with more than Read More …
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By Roxana Barbalescu, EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Almost a quarter million descendants of Spanish citizens (241.763) have been granted Spanish nationality following the ‘Historical Memory Act’ no 52/2007 from 26 of December – better known as the ‘grandchildren’s law’. The purpose Read More …
This book examines the phenomenon of dual nationality in the European Union, particularly against the background of the status of European citizenship – a status that is linked to the nationality of each EU Member State. While the first part Read More …
Read the ECtHR press release on the case Sitaropoulos and Others v. Greece and the full judgment of 15 March 2012.
The Association Council for Human Dignity is assisting a Hungarian retiree living in Slovakia and her daughter to submit a case to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg concerning her loss of citizenship of the Slovak Republic. The Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dagmar Kusa SMER, the recent winner of the early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, has announced changes to the citizenship law that will limit the withdrawal of Slovak citizenship from those voluntarily acquiring the citizenship of another Read More …
Like the Caribbean islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Dominica, Austria runs a citizenship-by-investment programme. Pursuant to article 10(6) of the Constitution of Austria, an individual may be granted Austrian citizenship at the discretion of authorities, whereby the common Read More …
This book asks how the original concept of a “right to citizenship (nationality)” has to be further developed with respect to the current context of migration and corresponding steps to Europeanise migrations policies as well as national citizenship laws, especially Read More …
Read the article on TheAfricaNews.com and our previous news item on this citizens’ initiative.
