EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 776,000 persons in 2009
EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 776,000 persons in 2009Read the EUROSTAT press release of 10 June 2011 Read the full EUROSTAT report
The Venice Commission Criticizes Provisions on Protection of Kin Minorities in the New Hungarian Basic Law
by Mária Kovács and Szabolcs Pogonyi In its opinion published on 20 June 2011 the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters, raises concerns over the Hungarian constitution making process. The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known Read More …
Romanian Vice PM and leader of the Hungarian minority criticizes external voting rights in Hungarian elections
Béla Markó, Romanian Vice Prime Minister and former leader of the UDMR, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, said on Saturday that he does not agree with the proposal that Romanian Hungarians should vote in parliamentary elections in Hungary Read More …
Around 100,000 individuals got Hungarian citizenship abroad as an effect of the Citizenship Law approved in 2010
From: Euro|topics Press review of 28/06/2011 Tears of joy over nationalised Hungarians Around 100,000 Hungarians living outside their home country have received Hungarian citizenship since last year, a spokesman for the right-wing conservative government of Viktor Orbán announced on Monday. Read More …
New Irish Citizens will in the future attend formal citizenship ceremonies
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter announced key changes to the citizenship application procedure. The Government has decided to institute a formal ceremony to give proper recognition to the importance of becoming a citizen but not to introduce citizenship tests for Read More …
Will French traditional toleration of dual citizenship survive?
Read the report “Deux nationalités, une colère” in Libération (in French).
Family Life and EU Citizenship: A commentary on McCarthy C-434/09 5 May 2011
By Helena Wray, Middlesex University This recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), formerly the European Court of Justice (ECJ), raises questions about the relationship between EU citizenship (as provided by Art.20 Treaty on the Read More …
99.7% of applicants granted Luxembourgish nationality
Since the nationality act began on January 1 2009, allowing citizens of five years or more to apply for Luxembourgish nationality, only 0.3% of applicants were refused the passport. Read the full article by the Luxembourgish Internet broadcaster News 352
Living in Limbo: Migrants Experiences of Applying for Naturalisation in Ireland
The processing times for applications to acquire Irish citizenship may take up to four-and-a-half years, a study by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) found. The research examined the experience of 315 migrants from more than 60 countries and a Read More …
Case C- 434-09: Shirley McCarthy v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
by Stephen Coutts On Thursday the 5th of May the Court of Justice handed down its judgment in the case of McCarthy v Secretary of State. Concerning an attempt by an EU citizen to rely on EU law to obtain Read More …