Cities vs States: Should Urban Citizenship be Emancipated from Nationality?

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Kickoff contribution by Rainer Bauböck. Comments by Avner de Shalit, Nir Barak , Patti Tamara Lenard , Josephine van Zeben, Warren Magnusson, Harald Bauder, Sandra Seubert, Monica W. Varsanyi, Enrico Gargiulo and Lorenzo Piccoli , Johanna Hase , Maarten Prak, Luicy Pedroza, Margaret Kohn, Avigail Eisenberg, Alexander T. Aleinikoff, Barbara Oomen, Ran Hirschl, Helmut Philipp Aust. Stephen Minas, Willem Maas, Kenneth Stahl, Liav Orgad, and Rainer Bauböck

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At last, a law on expatriate vote in Greece

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Greece has joined the growing group of states that have extended the right to vote in national elections to their citizens abroad. Although the rhetorics – and to a certain extend the expectations – of the Greek government were far more generous in terms of expanding the vote to a broader expatriate electorate, the law provides for a considerable number of restrictions aiming at guaranteeing that the persons entitled to vote conserve genuine links with the country.

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