By Laura MacInnis – Thu Nov 25, 5:20 pm ET GENEVA (Reuters) – Baby Rachel’s dad is Canadian, her mother is Chinese and 14 months after her birth in Beijing she’s finally a citizen too…of Ireland. However, Chloe — who Read More …
In November 2010, France asked to delay the Schengen accession for Bulgaria and Romania until summer 2010, when the European Commission is expected to present its annual report on the fight against corruption and organised crime in the two countries. Read More …
At the beginning of November 2010, acting on EU request, Montenegro has announced a freeze in its business citizenship offer. Read the article “Montenegro freezes business citizenship offer” by Bloomberg Businessweek
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP co-director Jo Shaw. In October 2010, the European Commission issued a number of important reports in the area of Citizenship, backing these up with a number of Eurobarometer surveys on EU citizenship, cross-border mobility and the exercise Read More …
On 4 November 2010, the Federal Commission for Immigration Issues published policy recommendations under the title: ‘”Citoyenneté” – Redefinir la participation, “Citoyenneté” – Partizipation neu denken (“Citizenship” – Redefining Participation). The Commission makes three main recommendations: (1) Kantons should introduce Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP consortium members Mária M. Kovács and Szabolcs Pogonyi “The current Constitution ties voting rights to permanent residence in Hungary. We do not want to uphold this provision”, Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP country expert Christophe Bertossi On 12 October 2010, the French Parliament passed a new law on immigration, an article of which introduces a change in the citizenship law: naturalised citizens can have their French citizenship withdrawn within Read More …
An analysis by EUDO CITIZENSHIP Advisory Board member Kees Groenendijk The coalition agreement of October 2010 between the two governing parties Freedom and Democracy (VVD), led by prime-minister Mark Rutte, and the Christian-Democrats (CDA), on the one hand, and the Read More …
Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes Read More …
Rainer Bauböck, Marc Helbling (eds.): Which indicators are most useful for comparing citizenship policies?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2011/54. Read More …
