On December 16, 2009, Germany signed the Council of Europe Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession (CETS No.: 200). Germany is the 7th State to sign the Convention. Being ratified by only three member States, Read More …
2,000 applications for Bulgarian citizenship of foreign citizens belonging to the Bulgarian diaspora were approved in January 2010 only. This figure has recently been reported by the Bulgarian Minister for Bulgarians abroad Bozhidar Dimitrov. Dimitrov, who holds a ministry without portfolio, had pushed for procedural simplifications in order to facilitate the acquisition of Bulgarian citizenship by the historical diaspora.
According to Dimitrov, this policy aims at bringing all Bulgarians together. It is inspired by the willingness to pay back “historical debts”, and to solve the “biggest problem in this country: its demographic crisis”.
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Christophe Bertossi The French minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Solidarity Development, Eric Besson, has made public his decision of refusing by decree the naturalisation of a man married to a woman who is Read More …
In December 2009, the Italian regional party Südtiroler Volkspartei (SVP) proposed to give dual Austrian-Italian citizenship to German speakers resident in the Northern Italian province of South Tyrol/Alto Adige, historically home to a predominantly German-speaking population. Austria has in the past acted as a protector of this linguistic minority and has been involved in negotiating an 1992 autonomy pact for South Tyrol that resolved an international dispute between Austria and Italy. Austria has so far, however, never offered Austrian citizenship to German speaking South Tyroleans.
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Denis Scuto 7.361 people acquired Luxembourg nationality within the ten months that followed the introduction in January 2009 of a new law on nationality in the country. In November 2009, Luxembourg Minister of Justice François Read More …
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted on 9 December 2009 the Recommendation (2009)13 on the nationality of children. The Recommendation deals with the nationality status of children and aims in particular at reducing statelessness for children. Read More …
The validity of the current Lithuanian Provisional Law on Citizenship was extended until July 1, 2010 in response to the failure of the Lithuanian unicameral Parliament, known as Seimas, to adopt a new Law on Citizenship by the end of Read More …
On December 14th, the new citizenship bill was drastically amended by the Constitutional Committee of the Chamber of Deputies following proposals by Isabella Bertolini, an MP of Berlusconi’s party Popolo delle Libertà (see). The most interesting aspect is that the Read More …
On 22 December 2009, the European Court of Human Rights decided in favour of applications brought by members of the Roma and the Jewish communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alleging racial and ethnic discrimination because the rules of the post-Dayton Read More …
From:Statistics Netherlands 15 December 2009 by Han Nicolaas On 1 January 2009, just over 1.1 million people in the Netherlands had at least one other nationality alongside the Dutch nationality. This is nearly three times the number on 1 January Read More …
