Many British citizens are concerned about the endless infighting about Brexit, especially those who cherish being European Union citizens and are worried about losing their status
figures released over the summer: “There has been a fivefold increase in first-time applications for Irish passports by British citizens since June 2016.”
The number of new applicants from Great Britain has risen from 6,011 in 2015 to 31,099 in the year to June 2019.’s article from October 24, listing the citizenship requirements for multiple EU countries, also provided statistics for UK citizens opting to become citizens of other EU countries. “Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures and national government statistics analysed by the Oxford in Berlin Research Centre show the number of people leaving for continental EU countries has risen continuously since 2010, with a dramatic 600% spike in ‘naturalisations’ since the Brexit referendum in 2016,” it stated.on Germany: “More than 17,000 Britons applied for German citizenship between 2016 and 2018, compared with fewer than 5,000 in the 15 previous years.
What’s more, the August 2019 article also pointed out that Germany would “ease the process for descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis to regain citizenship,” after a campaign by a British-based group called Article 116 Exclusions Group.’s Letters section in September 2019, a woman whose mother, an Austrian Jew, escaped to Britain in 1936, sought to expand the definition of who might be accepted as an Austrian citizen.
Amanda Hopkinson’s letter may have led to a change of heart in the Austrian parliament, which unanimously approved a substantive change soon after.penned last month, wrote that she found out the new law refers to its beneficiaries as “Brexit Opfern” , which she wryly noted was not how she would like to see herself, but admitted how she appeared to “fellow Europeans”.
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