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I'm not sure I understand your logic. Each country has its own rules on who it gives citizenship. The UK has these rules too, and many Europeans have obtained c
by fwdpropaganda 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand your logic. Each country has its own rules on who it gives citizenship. The UK has these rules too, and many Europeans have obtained citizenship in the UK. It's natural that British citizens can obtain citizenship in states whose rules will give it to them. What am I missing?
- masklinn 9y agoThat the article is not about getting citizenship to a member state in order to keep EU citizenship, but in gaining EU citizenship independently from citizenship from a member state.
- fwdpropaganda 9y agoActually if you read closely it's not about gaining EU citizenship, it's about not losing it if you're British. There's only two lines in that article that refer to what this people are actually fighting for: > The shared assumption of the European Union and the UK government is that Brexit will mean British citizens will automatically forfeit these rights. But this is being tested in a case brought by a group of UK nationals living in Amsterdam > “there is reason to doubt the correctness of the interpretation of article 20 that the loss of the status of citizen of an EU member state leads to loss of EU citizenship as well”
- masklinn 9y ago> Actually if you read closely it's not about gaining EU citizenship, it's about not losing it if you're British. The operative word is independently. The article is about gaining EU citizenship independently from being a member national, whereas Article 20 is worded such that citizenship is accessed through member nationality. So yes, the article is about gaining EU citizenship.
- fwdpropaganda 9y agoThe word "independently" doesn't even appear in this article. Calling it an operative word is just talking out of your ass. So no, it's not.