Promoting citizenship: The choices for immigrants, advocates, and European cooperation

Thomas Huddleston

Using the results of the 2007 Migrant Integration Policy Index, the first part of this article presents the state of citizenship(s) in the EU Member States. The few high standards in Council Directive 2003/109/EC may have had a greater and wider impact on the eligibility, procedural guarantees, and rights of long-term residents than many similar “soft” trends in naturalisation. On average, facilitating long-term residence seems to have little positive impact on naturalisation. Rather, some negative spillover effects are observed between the two.... READ MORE.

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New results of MIPEX
(2014-2020)

We are pleased to announce that the new results of MIPEX (2014-2020) will be published by the end of 2020. MIPEX 2020 will include 52 European and non-European countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, EU28, India, Japan, Mexico, US and much more. Stay tuned!