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Danes Abroad join fight for dual
citizenship
90.5% of the European
population have the possibility today to acquire citizenship within their new
home country without being forced to give up their original citizenship.
Only
9 out of 46 European nations do not allow dual citizenship and only 6 out of 27
EU-countries do not allow dual citizenship.
The youngest nations to have
joined the dual citizenship law were Sweden in 2002, Iceland and Finland in 2003
and Germany just last year in 2007.
The 28th of May the Danish parliament
will be holding a hearing concerning dual citizenship. The hearing has been
called into life due to a suggestion about a change in the Danish law concerning
dual citizenship by the 'Ny Alliance' party on the 1st of April 2008.
To this date Denmark does not allow dual citizenship.
The non-profit grassroots
movement www.statsborger.dk has been collecting over 11.600 signatures in favour
for the ability to gain dual citizenship at www.dobbelt-statsborgerskab.skrivunder.dk.
Most signatures coming from Danes living outside Denmark but also a large
amount from Danes living in Denmark who support dual citizenship.
Within
a globalized society where people are prone to migrate and move across borders
and where partnerships and marriages have become quite international the possibility
to gain a dual citizenship is the natural order of things.
Denmark not
allowing dual citizenship for those living outside the borders of the country,
have turned Danish countrymen and women into 'half persons' within their new home
countries: Citizens without the right to vote and with limited juridical security.
Immigrants within Denmark are also suffering the same kind of state of
the 'half citizens' in Denmark.
A complete integration - for Danish
citizens outside of Denmark, and immigrated persons within Denmark- demand citizens'
rights that only a dual citizenship can give them.
Especially the
need for integration was a key point for Sweden in 2003 when that country passed
a law that allows dual citizenship.
www.statsborger.dk has been representing
this case at the Danish parliament on May 15th.
www.statsborger.dk is
open for your questions and concerns around this topic at the following contacts:
Tina Thuesen - Danish citizen living in Switzerland – tthuesen@bluewin.ch
- +41 79 635 4816 (German and English speaking)
Charlotte Sylvestersen
– Danish citizen living in Italy – info@italy.dk
- +39 348 32 35 269 (Italian and English speaking)
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press : Jyllands Posten 29.4.2008
 Danes
abroad join fight for dual citizenship
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