By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Espen D. H. Olsen, Arena, University of Oslo In December 2011 the Norwegian majority government delivered a law proposition on revisions and changes to the Norwegian Citizenship Law. The background of the proposition is an aim Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Jelena Dzankic Just the other day I was watching the hit musical ‘Mamma Mia’, and I was reminded of the lines of one of the leading songs ‘Money, money, money… always sunny, in the rich men’s Read More …
By EUDO CITZENSHIP expert Gëzim Krasniqi There has been new and often heated debate in Albania over issues of nationality (ethnic affiliation), sparked by both the use of the term in legal and civil registers, and by the October 2011 Read More …
In their contribution, Ines Michalowski and Ricky van Oers discuss Sara Wallace Goodman’s article on civic integration policies in EU 15 (‘Integration Requirements for Integration’s Sake? Identifying, Categorising and Comparing Civic Integration Policies‘, JEMS, Volume 36, Issue 5, 2010). They Read More …
By Roxana Barbulescu, EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert France approved on Tuesday a new decree that changes the rules of access to French citizenship. As of July 2012, migrants who wish to naturalise will have to demonstrate knowledge of the French language, Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Costica Dumbrava A group of deputies belonging to the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), now in opposition, asked Romanian ambassador in Chisinau to take measures in order to withdraw Romanian citizenship from several Moldovan-Romanian Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dorota Pudzianowska On 18th January 2012, the Constitutional Tribunal decided that the new Polish citizenship law (the Nationality Law Act of 2 April 2009) does not violate the Constitution. According to the Tribunal, Article 30 of Read More …
by Rainer Bauböck (EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director) On 14 December 2011 the Austrian Constitutional Court decided in a case involving an American surrogate mother who had given birth to two children whose genetic parents are Austrian citizens residing in Vienna. After Read More …
More than 850 non-EU parents of Irish-citizen children have been granted residency in Ireland since the landmark European court judgment last year. Read the full article in the Irish Times.
By our EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dorota Pudzianowska On 18 January 2012, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal will consider the new Polish nationality law (case no. Kp 5/09) at a public hearing. The Act of Parliament was referred to the Constitutional Tribunal Read More …
