Results of the Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Immigrant Integration (ACIT) project, including the proposed European Standard on Access to Citizenship, have been presented to the European Economic and Social Committee for its new opinion on A more inclusive citizenship open to immigrants which was published on 17 October.
In its conclusions, the Committee states that “the right to Member State nationality and European citizenship must include all people of immigrant origin, who bring great national, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity“; calls member states to “adopt more flexible legislation and administrative procedures, in order to enable third-country nationals with long-term resident status to acquire nationality” and urges them to “conclude agreements with immigrants’ countries of origin to enable them to hold dual nationality“.
