EUDO CITIZENSHIP advisory board member André Liebich comments in Le Temps on the Hungarian-Slovak controversy over dual citizenship. Read the commentary “En Europe, la citoyenneté reste un terrain miné” (in French).
A Dutch-Iranian woman, Zahra Bahrami, has been imprisoned in Iran since December 2009 on suspicion of subversion. The woman, who holds a Dutch passport, was arrested while visiting one of her children in the country. According to the Dutch foreign Read More …
In 2010 Romania has granted citizenship to 17,000 Moldovans, Romanian President Traian Basescu announced. More than half a million Moldovans work in EU countries, most of them on the black labour market, he admitted. Read the article by Euroactive
by EUDO CITIZENSZHIP collaborator Roxana Barbulescu 7.5 percent of Estonia’s population of 1.3 million holds an Estonian “alien passaport”, according to an article published by the New York Times on August 15, 2010. These people, mostly ethnic Russians, are stateless Read More …
On August 14, 2010, the Bulgarian newspaper Standart News reported the reply of the Bulgarian Diaspora Minister Bozhidar Dimitrov to a UK complain before Brussels concerning the high number of citizenship granted by Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. These “new” European Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Judit Tóth
12 August 2010
As reported by EUDO CITIZENSHIP, the Hungarian Parliament has recently passed an amendment to the Hungarian Citizenship Act that provides for a preferential and accelerated naturalisation of Hungarians who are descendants of former citizens. There is no more requirement that such applicants for Hungarian citizenship have to reside in Hungary. This news item summarises a recently issued government decree on the implementation of this accelerated naturalisation procedure.
Historian and citizenship expert Patrick Weil responds to Nicolas Sarkozy’s and Brice Hortefeux’s proposal to deprive naturalised immigrants who attack police officers of their French citizenship Read the article in French published by Le Monde on 2 August 2010: Patrick Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP/CITSEE expert Jelena Dzankic Following the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession a few months ago, Montenegro has recently ratified the European Convention on Nationality (ECN). In Read More …
On 22 July 2010, in a much-anticipated opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), found that Kosovo’s declaration of independence did not violate general international law. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and up to July 2010 it had been recognised by 69 states. Serbia, which strongly opposes Kosovo’s independence, sponsored a draft-resolution at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) to request an advisory opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence. The question on which the advisory opinion of the Court was requested was put forth in Resolution 63/3 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 8 October 2008. The Court was requested to render an advisory opinion on the following question: ‘Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?’
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP/CITSEE expert Jelena Dzankic
The ruling in the case of Kuric and others v. Slovenia (application no. 26828/06), of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has concluded that the “Erasure” from the Slovenian Register of Permanent Residents of eight out of the eleven applicants constituted a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), which protects private and family life. In the ruling delivered on 13 July 2010, the ECtHR also found Slovenia in breach of Article 13 of the ECHR, due to the failure of the state authorities to provide the applicants with an effective remedy before a domestic authority.
