
9 EU Countries That Grant Citizenship to the Great Grandchildren of Their Citizens
Globally, hundreds of millions of people have a great grandparent from an EU country. Too few of them are picking up citizenships for free.

Globally, hundreds of millions of people have a great grandparent from an EU country. Too few of them are picking up citizenships for free.

18 months of lobbying has paid off. As many as 1.5 million Slovak descendants worldwide will now potentially be eligible for EU citizenship.

Among our ten most-read stories in 2021, half concerned Portugal and half were written by outside contributors. Merry Christmas.

Slovakia is about to take citizenship by descent one generation further by qualifying great-grandchildren of Slovaks and former Czechoslovaks.