Julian Assange has received Ecuadorian nationality in December 2017. Following this, Ecuador following then purported, in January, to grant him the status of a diplomat in the UK. This gave rise to new claims that the UK now has the Read More …
The US government treats the twin sons of a gay couple differently. The twins were born to an anonymous egg-donor and two fathers: one US citizen and one Israeli citizen. The couple married in Canada, where the twins were born. Read More …
Maurizio Ferrera and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Should EU citizenship be duty-free? EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2017/60. Link to publication details and abstract.
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 …
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 …
