GLOBALCIT forum debate published as a Working Paper: Should EU citizenship be duty-free?
Maurizio Ferrera and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Should EU citizenship be duty-free? EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2017/60. Link to publication details and abstract.
Comoran citizenship for bidoons
The sale of citizenship has been on the increase in recent years. Since 2008, the Union of Comoros has practiced the sale of its passports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait, both of which have large populations of Read More …
Switzerland tightens already strict naturalisation law by demanding more civic integration
By Sam Schmid, GLOBALCIT collaborator Non-citizen residents who want to naturalise in Switzerland face new rules as of January 1st, 2018. Besides one marginal liberalisation, the new law introduces more stringent conditions. The main aim of the law is to Read More …
Record number of Portuguese citizenship acquisitions in 2016
By Ana Rita Gil, GLOBALCIT Country Expert In December 2017 media sources reported a record number of acquisitions of the Portuguese citizenship in 2016, based on new data from Statistics Portugal (INE). According to these statistics, the number of persons Read More …