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At a Glance On March 26, 2024, the legislative process for the citizenship law was completed and the law will enter into force on June 26, 2024.
Among other changes, the law will:
- reduce the minimum period of German residence necessary for naturalization to five years (and even three years in exceptional circumstances), down from eight years.
- allow German citizens to hold multiple citizenships whereas currently, dual citizenship is possible only in rare circumstances.
This law is expected to increase uptake of German citizenship, especially as many potential citizenship applicants are citizens of other countries and therefore currently barred from naturalizing without giving up their current citizenship. It is also likely to make Germany a more attractive labour market for foreign talent, as access to a German passport will be easier.
Source: https://www.fragomen.com/insights/germany-new-citizenship-law-to-enter-into-force-in-june-2024.html
Germany information is outdated.
How can the concept of EU citizenship have been introduced by the Maastricht treaty in 1992, when it is explicitly referred to in a treaty nearly 40 years before? -signed everyone —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.142.47 (talk) 15:21, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
See first two portions of the article. Maastricht in 1992, vs. TFEU in the 1950s. I think there's a problem with 'supplementary' to national citizenship. The text, I think, says eu citizenship is 'over and above' national citizenship, replacing the earlier 'supplementary' notion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.107.153.120 (talk) 21:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC) teodora je ovde bila — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.135.18.212 (talk) 10:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC) MALA TEA JE OVDE BILA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.135.18.212 (talk) 11:04, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Nationals of Denmark are now Union citizens, following the Treaty of Amsterdam. See the following:
Dubitante (talk) 11:54, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Denmark is currently marked as not allowing dual citizenship, with a citation that leads to a "page not found". Thus that citation should be fixed and removed. Additionally, I know it to be not strictly true as I am a citizen of both Denmark (by descent) and the US (by birth). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruxador (talk • contribs) 00:55, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
"Member States" (see Grzelczyk v Centre Public d'Aide Sociale d'Ottignes-Louvain-la-Neuve Case C-184/99 [2001] ECR I-6193, para 31) [6]. The European Commission has affirmed that Union citizenship should be the fundamental status of EU nationals. This is not accepted by many of the national governments."
Which national governments do not accept this. It would be clearer to tell, else this statement could be considered as opinion couldn't it?
Article 17 1. Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall complement and not replace national citizenship.
It might be more useful to explain what fundamental status means. In the context of Grzelcyk, it didn't mean that he had an absolute right to benefits after all, just a right to a proportionate rather than automatic response from the State195.33.121.133 18:44, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
My personal opinion is that "fundamental" is akin to "foundational". It indicates the basis upon which something else rests, like the foundation of a building. Since "every person holding the nationality of a Member State" is the basis upon which EU citizenship "shall be", it is the "nationality of a Member State" upon which EU citizenship is founded. On the other hand, "fundamental" also means "underlying". It is the supportive character of the EU, which grants rights supplementary to, and protective of, those of nationals of Member States, which lends legitimacy to its claim to fundamentality. Therefore, I find no fault in the claim of either usage, unless a legal definition of "fundamental", recognized by him who uses the word, be summoned up in an effort to contest the facts clearly expressed in Article 17, in which case, it is a matter of deciding which has the overriding legal authority: Article 17, or the legal definition (possibly written into a statute). I don't contest the UK's right to express an opinion contrary to mine, but it seems to me a purely semantic matter, signifying nothing with respect to Article 17, in which no such concept as "fundamental" is invoked, and the issues of dependency, inclusion, and complementarity are evident. Unfree (talk) 08:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure to understand with precision what you say, but I blieve both next points will give you some usefull light on this issue: According to jurisprudence:
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You dont need to put this is in even its stupid information cant we just have information regarding EU Citizenship for all Europeans instead of this two tier crap, it actually is not two tier.Pryde 01 (talk) 13:53, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you Warrington (talk) 21:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
That two tier information is not needed because nearly all EU Member States have full reciprocity of Visa Free Access anyway the only ones remaining to get Full Visa Free Reciprocity is Romania and Bulgaria and that should be solved soon in the near future. The second thing is that many EU Citizens from CE and EE do not need work permits for most of the Western Europe part of the EU, for the EU States that joined in 2004 basically the get full Freedom of Workers even before the expiry date in 2011. EU States Romania and Bulgaria have already had a big wave of Free Movement of Workers they currently have 15 out of 25 EU States that have given them Full Freedom of Workers. Romania and Bulgaria only need 10 more EU States to go and they are expected to be lifted in 3 years time on 31st December 2011.
That information regarding unfairness in the so called two tier system is not true, on most cases. The problem is not sufficient enough to include that information.Pryde 01 (talk) 03:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
This article lacks information on how Citizenship of the European Union will work after the treaty of lisbon is ratified. I don't now enough about the subject to write about it myself. Nxsty (talk) 12:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
This article needs some serious rewriting, as is noted and which hasn't been changed sufficiently to remove since January (2009). The Citizen Rights Directive section can be removed and simply put in the preceding section, as it does not warrant its own section which has a single statement. Similarly, the mention of different treatments of different nationalities within the EU, with 'third countries' and the potential for 'second-class citizens', is POV and doesn't address the point that a UK or Swedish national derive their rights to international travel from their respective member state, as do citizens of Romania or Bulgaria, with EU citizenship not acting as the basis by which they can enter a country visa free (unless this is specifically the case, in which case you'd need to cite the reference). Finally, there are numerous examples of non-cited statements, such as the reference that EU (and international) law would not allow a member state to grant citizenship to members of a non-member state. In the EU context, for instance, there are issues which could be brought up from the French and British examples, through their remaining colonial possessions. The UK granting British citizenship to all its British Overseas Territories citizens (with some exceptions) would be an excellent example of this, if someone did the research to show what the EU's legal position was, but it equally shows that there is no international law which forbids this (as the UK did it). So there needs to be better structuring and citations. I'm bringing this up so that people can respond, but this article will need to be cleaned up. Roche-Kerr (talk) 02:10, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
"...until the end of 2013. At the year 2013 the restrictions...shall be lifted permanently." Which is it then, "at the year" or "at the end of the year"? Unfree (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Currently, this section only comprises one (unreferenced) sentence on Greenland. There is no mention of the UK. Does this really need its own section, anyway? It could probably be merged into another section. Hayden120 (talk) 03:06, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
The table on acquisition of member state citizenships by birth, descent, naturalization, etc is in need of completion and clarification. We must clarify what the column headings mean.
1. Any conditions including a child's birth in the country should be placed in the "birth" column, NOT in the "descent" column, even if the parents are mentioned in the wording. Only conditions providing for the inheritance of citizenship without birth in the country should be placed in the "descent" column.
This is because no EU country's laws use pure jus soli -- most lean towards jus sanguinis. This means that all items in the "birth" column, except for those relating to foundlings, will include conditions about the parents' citizenship, or at least about their long term residence.
2. What do "yes" and "no" mean in the "marriage" column? All EU countries eventually grant marriage to cohabitating resident spouses of citizens. No EU country grants citizenship immediately upon marriage. So what do all the "no"s in this column mean? Perhaps the author of the "yes"/"no" items is referring to the eventual acquisition of citizenship without residence in the country (e.g. France, Italy)? These binary responses should be explained/removed/replaced.
3. The table is in need of completion. EUDO Citizenship Observatory and wiki pages like Swedish nationality law, Hungarian nationality law etc might help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bnorpsk (talk • contribs) 22:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I unfortunately did not enter my full edit summary for my most recent edit. For the record, I would have said, "Ok, some points: One, fixing and including largest countries by population in order of population. Two, for the love of God, don't play favorites on Wikipedia. And three, they are useful because they symbolize the mix of unity and soverignty in the EU." Trinitresque (talk) 21:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
This section needs more reliable sources. If you can please add reliable sources. Hingeabaciu (talk) 02:10, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
The dual citizenship has principle that it is allowed only for citizens who obtained citizenship but not for those who got it in naturalisation. However for some countries it has worded as no, and for some countries as yes. Maybe to add another colour, which categorises these separately from yes and no. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.184.7 (talk) 23:05, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
"(one cannot be an EU citizen without being a national of a member state)."
What is this based on? The language of Art. 20 TFEU is not exhaustive and does not expressly restrict citizenship of the Union to nationals of member states. Art.19 TEU stipulates that the CJEU shall ensure that in the interpretation and and application of the treaties the law is observed. This leaves the possibility of citizenship of the Union extending to a non-national where it would be inconsistent with fundamental law otherwise. The categorical assertion that 'one cannot be an EU citizen [citizen of the Union] without being a national of a member state' as far as I know has no foundation in EU law whatsover.
I know that this assumption is widespread and made in various textbooks and websites. However this is neither acte clair or acte eclaire, i.e. this is an unsubstantiated opinion and unquestioned assumption, not an established fact.
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How come the UK has been excluded from the collection of passport images at top right? Stub Mandrel (talk) 11:41, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Some recent changes, spread out over a number of sections/sub-sections and probably related to Brexit, appear to be arguing a legal case for EU citizenship that is not contingent upon the citizenship of a member state from time to time. The legal arguments do not appear to be sourced or attributed and seem to be stated or implied in Wikipedia's voice. I would suggest that we restore the version before these changes were made -- before they get too entangled with unrelated changes. --Boson (talk) 15:18, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
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Are British nationality law and Irish nationality law common and consistent defining categories of European Union citizenship law ? I don't think so. The EU does not belong to the UK.
Also, European Union law is a parent category of European nationality law, and thus not needed here per WP:PARENTCAT. Same for , which is a Parentcat of European nationality law. Frenchl (talk) 10:39, 26 November 2023 (UTC)