The EUDO CITZENSHIP Web site staff are to be greatly commended for marshalling in one place a comprehensive array of legal, analytical, and statistical information on citizenship in EU countries from the continent’s top experts. This is an important compendium, one that without question should be the first place policymakers, researchers, and journalists with questions about citizenship and nationality laws visit. From our experience, we know the value of presenting hard-to-find migration data and analysis online – and keeping it current. EUDO has made an important contribution for those interested in migration matters.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute

"The EUDO website on citizenship is a remarkable intellectual resource. It is the first place to which I direct colleagues and students interested in questions about citizenship and immigration in Europe today. It provides not only basic, up-to date information about laws, policies, and empirical developments but also stimulating analyses and discussions. This is a major contribution to public discourse"

Joseph H. Carens, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

"The Citizenship Observatory is a formidable research tool. It enables the field to move from an excess of abstract conceptualizations to research rooted in detailed legal practice. European Citizenship is meant to be complementary to Member State nationality. The one cannot be studied or understood without the other. Now the resource exists to realize that imperative."

Joseph Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at New York University Law School

"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. When I started my research on European citizenship in the 1980s, there was very little theoretical or empirical literature on citizenship either in respect of a particular state or comparing two or more systems, let alone any transnational dimensions to it. The twofold appeal of this website reflects the twofold significance of citizenship; its human stories and intellectual puzzles. The human stories may be happy ones; success in acquiring a new nationality and becoming an integrated citizen of a new polity. Or they may be ones of misery; failure to be accepted in a new country, loss of citizenship or family separation. These human situations have become increasingly voluminous with the growth in migration seen in the last two decades. And migration contributes to the intellectual problems that also need to be addressed in how citizenship should be understood and practiced when old ideas of exclusive national territorial sovereignty no longer reflect the lived experience of interdependence and transnational, collaborative policy-making. Thus, the foundation of this website could not be more timely. 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