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800,000 granted EU citizenship in 2011
Between 2010 and 2011, Malta granted citizenship to 2,000 persons.
27 November 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
In 2011, the 27 EU Member States granted citizenship to 783,000 persons, half of them aged 25 to 44 and a third aged less than 25 years.
According to Eurostat, during that year Malta granted citizenship to 1,100, while in the previous year citizenship was granted to around 900 persons.
The number of citizenships granted can be related to the number of non-nationals resident in the Member State.
In 2011, Malta was the fourth Member State with the highest rate of citizenship granted per 100 resident foreigners. The highest was Hungary with 9.8 citizenships followed by Poland (6.7), Sweden (5.8) and Malta (5.3).
The lowest rates were registered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (both 0.4), Latvia (0.6), Estonia and Austria (both 0.7). In general, the European Union granted 2.3 citizenships per 100 resident foreigners.
In 2011, the new citizens in the 27 Member States mainly came from Africa (26% of the total number of citizenships acquired), Asia (23%), non-EU27 Europe (19%), and North and South America (17%). According to Eurostat, a quarter of the new EU citizens were Moroccans, Turks, Ecuadorians or Indians.
Half the Moroccans acquired French or Spanish citizenship, while six in every ten turks acquired a German citizenship. The vast majority of Ecuadorians and Indians were granted a Spanish and British citizenship respectively.
Romanians were the largest group of EU citizens acquiring citizenship of another EU Member State, with a total of 26,000 persons.
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According to Eurostat, during that year Malta granted citizenship to 1,100, while in the previous year citizenship was granted to around 900 persons.
Dr Busuttil any comments on these 2,000 new Maltese?
Can you tell us whether Malta benefited from these new members? What measures were taken to ensure that none of these new citezens were associated with criminal dealings or terrorist activities? Just imagine what Malta would have got if 1/10 of these new citizens were granted citizenship under the IIP scheme? 1.2 Billion Euros.
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ahbu il passaporti ghidulhom ghax il patrun tal burden sharing kollha johodomlhom la (alla jilliberana kollha) xi darba jsir PM ta Malta
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Will Simon be calling for the repeal of their citizenship and passpoerts?
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This all means how hypocrite the PN is in his attitude towards the local citizenship scheme the Labour Government is planning to introduce here in Malta.
