Marine Le Pen is calling to expand the EU law prohibiting one from maintain dual citizenship with nations that are not EU members. She sites this is the case for Israelis as Israel is not a member of the European Union.
This means French Jews who hold Israeli citizenship would be compelled to give up one of them. The same would hold true for the estimated over 33,000 Jews living in Germany as a Green Party poll favors imposing the law on Israeli nationals.
Le Pen last week told France 2 TV that if elected in the upcoming elections, this is one of the laws that she would implement, banning dual citizenship for non-EU nations including Israel. This would impact an estimated quarter of a million French Jews residing in Israel today while maintaining their French citizenship. Le Pen explains if elected, she would not exempt them from the new law.
She stressed if those Jews living in France decide to give up French citizenship, they would not be compelled to leave but they simply have to select their loyalty.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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At last sanity!
and how exactly will she be able to check it? I have four passports and none of the countries involved, including Israel know which are the other ones. The only thing possible to check is a place of birth.
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#1 You call this nazi-style policy “sanity”? This is NOT an EU law. Member countries make their own laws on citizenship. France allows dual nationality without distinction of the second country; some EU members don’t allow citizens to acquire a 2nd citizenship; some only prohibit a 2nd EU nationality. No EU state forces renunciation on someone who automatically acquired other nationalities. So the article is factually wrong. Le Pen is PROPOSING this odious law.
This is not as simple as it looks, because the laws is not really the way it is described. Greenland is not part of the EU (officially parted as of 1984-1985), but because Greenland remains eligible for Danish passport in addition to its non-EU Greenland passport, Greenland is still eligible for EU status.
Further, it is a serious Human Rights matter to deprive someone of citizenship that was obtained legally (and even more so for someone actually born legally in the country with citizenship). “Article 15(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality” and it has been the custom by Human Rights Courts to interpret the meaning of nationality to include citizenship.
As Wikipedia notes (sourced in its footnote) the EU courts have determined that “It is for each Member State, having due regard to Union law, to lay down the conditions for the acquisition and loss of nationality”
Number one and I guess you would favor that for America too
What’s your stand on illegals coming in