If you’ve ever left your home and moved abroad, you will know that there can be some confusing times. There’s usually a lot of paperwork involved too – visas, residency permits and even gaining a new nationality. While some parts of these processes are straightforward, others can be a minefield to figure out.
The number of people acquiring the citizenship of a European country has increased massively compared to a decade ago. Experts say that the trend has accelerated in recent years due various factors.
An important but hardly-known international agreement signed by 29 European countries has established common principles for citizenship rules, rights and duties associated to multiple citizenship, explains Claudia Delpero.
Naturalisation has often been seen as the best way to secure the right to live permanently in another European country, but this notion is becoming “increasingly fragile”, a new report reveals.
Across Europe governments are toughening rules and rhetoric around foreign residents being able to acquire citizenship. Claudia Delpero talks to one of Europe's top experts to shed light on the current trend.
The national conservative Danish People’s Party says it wants to terminate an agreement on easier citizenship between Nordic countries, citing crime rates in Sweden as the reason.
