Our goals and services

Our goal is to provide academics, governments, international organisations and NGOs with information for research and evidence-based evaluation of public policies.

We do not offer information or counselling to individuals interested in acquiring the citizenship of a particular country and we do not encourage experts in our network to answer such requests.

Welcome to the EUDO CITIZENSHIP website!
Democracy is government accountable to citizens. But how do states determine who their citizens are? EUDO CITIZENSHIP allows you to answer this and many other questions on citizenship in the EU member states and neighboring countries. On this website you can find the most updated information on loss and acquisition of citizenship, national and international legal norms, citizenship statistics and bibliographical resources. Read more

Go to a brief introduction where to find which information on the EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory

 
Download the EUDO CITIZENSHIP leaflet with a short overview of our goals and activities

Download the EUDO CITIZENSHIP handout with a summary of results of our research

 

Testimonials

"This website is a critical tool for all scholars and policy makers interested in the field of citizenship"

Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Migration Law, University of Nijmegen
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"This website is an indispensable source of a wealth of information and ideas for both people working on practical issues of citizenship and nationality and for those engaged in research in the area. Since the twin purposes which it serves are here to stay for the foreseeable future, its continuation is equally vital"   
 
Elizabeth Meehan, Queen's University Belfast
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Top Citizenship News

ECtHR holds Slovenia responsible for ‘erased people’

On 13 July, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has condemned the "erasure" of persons from the Slovene civil registry who had missed a 1991 deadline to apply for citizenship in newly independent Slovenia. The ECtHR concluded that the “erasure” from the Slovenian Register of Permanent Residents of eight out of the eleven applicants constituted a violation of Article 8 and Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

Read a summary by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Jelena Dzankic, the full text of the judgment and the EUDO CITIZENSHIP country report on Slovenia.

 

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Announcements

On August 26, 2010, EUDO CITIZENSHIP Co-Director Rainer Bauböck took part in a radio show on "Citizenship by Birth?: A Worldwide Comparison", hosted by the U.S.-based WAMU 88.5 FM radio station. Click here to listen to the radio show.

Call for papers for a new journal Open Citizenship.

Click here for the EUDO CITIZENSHIP list of upcoming events.

 

The EUDO CITIZENSHIP network in Edinburgh, January 2010