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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.

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The EUDO CITIZENSHIP website is unique in combining extensive and up to date data on citizenship in the EU, intelligent analysis of all legal and political aspects of citizenship and breaking news on the subject. At last, the issue of trans-European citizenship has truly come alive for the benefit of us all.

Kalypso Nicolaïdis, University of Oxford, member of the EU reflection group on the Future of Europe

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"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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Citizenship Forum

Questions about citizenship are at the centre of academic as well as political controversies. EUDO CITIZENSHIP encourages open debates based on evidence and knowledge, and conducted in a spirit of mutual respect.

 

Which indicators are most useful for comparing citizenship policies?
Past forum debate

Kickoff contribution by Marc Helbling

Comments by:

David Reichel, Maarten Vink, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Rogier van Reekum, Peter Scholten, Christophe Bertossi, Thomas Janoski, Thomas Huddleston, Anita Manatschal

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Has the European Court of Justice Challenged Member State Sovereignty in Nationality Law?
Past forum debate

Kickoff contribution by Jo Shaw

Comments by:

Michael Dougan, Gareth T. Davies, Dimitry Kochenov, Oxana Golynker, Dora Kostakopoulou, Gerard René De Groot and Anja Seling

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Dual citizenship for transborder minorities? How to respond to the Hungarian-Slovak tit-for-tat
Past Forum debate

Kickoff contribution by Rainer Bauböck

Comments by:

Mária Kovács, Peter J. Spiro, Andrei Stavila, Joachim Blatter, Florian Bieber, Erin Jenne and Stephen Deets, Gábor Egry, André Liebich, Enikő Horváth

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How liberal are citizenship tests?
Past forum debate

Kickoff contribution by Christian Joppke

Comments by:

Ines Michalowski, Kees Groenendijk and Ricky van Oers, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Joseph Carens, Dora Kostakopoulou, Liav Orgad, Randall Hansen, Sergio Carrera and Elspeth Guild, Sara Wallace Goodman

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EUDO Citizenship Forum Archive

Is there (still) an East-West divide in the conception of citizenship in Europe?

Authors: André Liebich, Mária M. Kovács, Shushanik Makaryan, Constantin Iordachi, Costica Dumbrava, Raymond Taras

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EUDO CITIZENSHIP Forum debates start with a kickoff contribution on a controversial question of general interest to academic and policy communities. New comments should engage with previous contributions and must address the question asked in the forum title. We are particularly interested in contributions that use the data and reports published on our website. Each debate will be concluded with a response by the author of the kickoff contributions. Selected and edited past forum debates will also be published on our website as EUDO CITIZENSHIP Working Papers.


We do not provide for direct posting. Contributions will be selected according to quality and originality. Send your response to a current forum debate by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please add your full name, institutional affiliation and a link to a personal website.


Keep your comments short and straight to the point (generally no more than 1,000 words).


Comments containing verbal insults, unsubstantiated polemics or that are otherwise harmful for the reputation of EUDO CITIZENSHIP will in any case be excluded from publication.


The Citizenship Forum editors have the sole right of final editing (including phrasing and terminology).

If you want to propose a new debate, please provide a short statement why you think this is a relevant question and how it is linked to the goals of EUDO CITIZENSHIP.

 

EUDO also promotes debates on other questions about democracy in the European Union. EUDO Café is the place where scholars, experts and all occasional visitors share views on the challenges facing Democracy in Europe today.