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 …
The ‘naturalisation rate’ is a commonly used indicator to measure the ratio of the number of persons acquiring citizenship of a country over the stock of non-national population in a country; as such, it is often used to measure the relative inclusiveness of a country’s naturalisation policy. According to Eurostat statistics, in Hungary the average naturalisation rates in the period 2011-15 was 7.8 percent, one of the highest rates reported in the European Union. Read More …
By Gerd Valchars, GLOBALCIT country expert The new Austrian government, a coalition of the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) sworn in on 18 December 2017, presented their plans for the next five years. The 180-page Read More …
GLOBALCIT co-director Maarten Vink took part in Bilbao European dialogues, where he delivered a speech on Citizenship and the Socio-economic and Political Integration of Refugees.
The number of persons who have been granted Hungarian citizenship on grounds of ethnic kinship. The programme has been approved by the Orban parliament in 2010. In the 2014 elections, 95% of Hungarians naturalised through ethnic kinship voted Victor Orban’s Read More …
The public understanding is that dual citizenship is not allowed in Japan: The reality is that dual citizenship (nijyu kokuseki) it is tolerated in some cases and forbidden in other cases which leads to the interpretation that it is neither allowed nor forbidden in current Japanese Nationality Law. The question of dual citizenship becomes a critical one for those in positions and occupations for which the Japanese law explicitly states a Japanese citizenship requirement. Read More …
