Brexit highlights fundamental difficulties related to EU citizenship. Our partner programme, the Global Citizenship Governance project, has launched its first online debate on the topic of EU citizenship. The various contributions from prominent scholars in the field provide different answers Read More …
On 23 January, the European Commission published its long-awaited Report on Investor Citizenship Schemes. The report is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document, which provides definitions of investor residence and citizenship programmes, as well as an overview of policies applicable across the 28 European Union (EU) Member States. On the basis of an empirical study of investor citizenship and residence schemes in the EU, the report calls for due regard of EU law in national citizenship policies, especially regarding the link between residence and physical presence, common standards for security checks, and enhanced oversight of intermediaries involved in acquisition of citizenship and residence by investment. Read More …
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce the publication of reports on citizenship law in Azerbaijan (by Maxim Tabachnik) and Zimbabwe (by Bronwen Manby). We have now also published our new report on political participation of mobile EU citizens in Lithuania.
On 21 January 2019, Spain and the UK signed a bilateral agreement regulating voting rights of Britons in Spain and Spaniards in the UK. The total number of people concerned in both countries is about 0.5 million. Under the current Read More …
David Owen, Refugees, EU Citizenship and the Common European Asylum System. A Normative Dilemma for EU Integration, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2019
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On December 6 2018, the Norwegian Parliament decided to allow dual citizenship, bringing the country back in line with its Nordic neighbors. The decision breaks with the historical tradition of singular citizenship, but was already proposed by the current conservative Government in its political platform in 2017. The fact that it was a conservative government that proposed the amendment of the Nationality law is testament to a changing rationale for the introduction of dual citizenship in the Nordic region, where retainment of citizenship for emigrants and national security issues are key arguments. The amendment is expected to enter into force in 2020. Read More …
By Maxim Tabachnik, Defining the nation in Russia’s buffer zone: the politics of citizenship by birth on territory (jus soli) in Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Post-Soviet Affairs, 2018
GLOBALCIT is pleased to announce its new Infographics page. On this page, you will find user-friendly graphical summaries of our data concerning electoral rights in the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. We will keep expanding this new section of our website Read More …
By Bronwen Manby (2019), Statelessness and Citizenship in the East African Community, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Austrian Constitutional Court nullified a decision regarding the loss of the Austrian citizenship of a naturalised Austrian who allegedly had reacquired Turkish citizenship. The provincial citizenship office of Vienna had qualified an alleged extract from the Turkish electoral register Read More …
