Jul 7, 20193 minUS Supreme Court confronts Trump Administration in census decisionIn their analysis of the US Supreme Court’s decision from 27 June 2019 dealing with the legality of adding the question “Is this person a...
Jul 5, 20192 minThe criminalisation of search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean SeaArguably, it is the 2002 Facilitation Directive that allows Member States to criminalise humanitarian NGOs rescuing migrants at sea becau...
Jul 4, 20193 minWhat explains the popularity of the Australian immigration model?Over the last few years political parties in several European countries have been advocating the “Australian model” as a way to prevent u...
Jul 3, 20193 minIs authoritarian populism on the retreat after elections in Turkey?Last week Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) won the position of mayor of Istanbul by obtaining 54% of the votes – an ...
Jul 2, 20192 minShould ISIS affiliates be repatriated?When Islamic State (ISIS) announced the formation of a caliphate on 29 June 2014, it was clear that the citizenship status of those who h...
Jul 1, 20192 minBlockchain Watch Bitcoin Price Continues to Surge Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum are being bought more than sold since April, however...
Jun 27, 20194 minAccess to citizenship and the Sustainable Development GoalsIn a policy brief prepared by the European Network on Statelessness last May, in preparation of the High-Level Political Forum of 9-18 Ju...
Jun 26, 20193 minWhat do citizenship commentators make of the CJEU ruling in Tjebbes?When discussing the important Tjebbes ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union last March, we promised to revisit the case on...
Jun 25, 20194 minMigration to the United States: Mexico vs. Central AmericaThe New York Times recently reported that in April, more than 109,000 people (often travelling as families) were apprehended at or near t...
Jun 24, 20192 minMoldova calls for new electionsFollowing the Moldovan Parliamentary elections on 24 February 2019, I published an article on the consequences of the elections for EU-Mo...
Jun 21, 20192 minHave we entered the “Asian century”?According to UN data, Asia is currently home to more than half the world’s population and 21 of the world’s largest cities are in Asia. W...
Jun 20, 20192 minAt G20 meeting, Indian Finance Minister advocates to tackle misuse of CBI programmesOn 9 June, the Indian Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman expressed her concern over the misuse of investment mi...
Jun 19, 20193 minThe African Continental Free Trade AreaAs mentioned in a previous article published by the Future Citizen Institute, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was conclu...
Jun 18, 20194 minMini-BOTS: is Italy on its way to installing a parallel currency?After the recent European Parliament elections, commentators concluded two things: the political centre, though much more scattered, rema...
Jun 17, 20194 minEurostat statistics show naturalisation rates in the EUEvery year Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the European Union, publishes statistics on citizenship matters in the different EU member...
Jun 13, 20194 minHow did citizenship historically develop in China?As Future Citizen Institute continues to analyse contemporary citizenship practices and identify trends that could lead to a form of “glo...
Jun 12, 20193 minIs multiculturalism on the rise in East Asia?Japan is probably the most-cited example of a country experiencing a rapid population decline. Previous Future Citizen Institute episodes...
Jun 11, 20192 minWhat explains the sharp drop in naturalisation applications in the US?When President Trump announced his new "merit-based" immigration plan last month, he was already well into the third year of his presiden...
Jun 10, 20193 minWhat is global citizenship education?Global citizenship is the idea that instead of being the citizen of any particular country in the world, that everyone is a citizen of th...
Jun 6, 20192 minBlockchain Watch Facebook’s Stablecoin “GlobalCoin” June 2019 will see the revealing of Facebook’s own cryptocurrency. It is reported that their blockchai...