Brits Getting Eu Nationality.

[Jennykenny]

BBC article on BBC online. Sorry can’t do links.
Approximately 7,500 Brits got German nationality in 2017, as compared to
500 in Ireland. That can’t be correct. Whilst there may not be many Brits living in Ireland (?) compared to the numbers in Germany (?) there are huge numbers of Brits with Irish parents/grandparents applying for Irish nationality, and subsequently a passport.
Can these figures be correct??

[ichkeria]

Those figures don’t include the ones with such claims.
I thought you had to have been born in Ireland to apply.
I’ll be adding my name to the list next year :-)

[ichkeria]

Here’s the link which explains it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44629193

[Guilbert53]

The people don't have to be living in Ireland or Germany to apply for dual nationality.

The guy on the BBC web site lives in Bath and is British but applied for German nationality because his mother was a Jewish refugee.

Maybe many of the Irish living in UK already have dual nationality.

[Old_Geezer]

I wish folk wouldn't refer to EU nationality, spreading the impression that the EU has become a nation.

Folk are busy getting dual nationality with a county still daft enough to be ruled by the EU. Since EU decisions seem to favour Germany, many are trying for that while they can.

[Theland]

To all the Europhiles - Are you happy with the democracy in the EU? Does it not bother you that it is widely recognised as a totally UNdemocratic experiment?
The Commission call the shots and you don't count.
Check it out.

[-Talbot-]

I'm not trying.

[Theland]

T - Have an ice cube.

[gulliver1]

"Can these figures be correct" ask TTT, he knows everything, and more!.

[KARL]

For some it is uncomfortable to learn that, following the most recent developments, there are British nationals who previously would not bother to look for a different nationality but are now eager to. I know of someone (a born and bred Brit) who intends to apply for citizenship of a country which is not in the EU, one where for this person there is a chance of it being granted.

[The_Rim_Greaper]

@ 17:27

Certainly a lot more than yourself....

[Jennykenny]

Ice. My nephew, who was born and bread in England, got his Irish passport a few months ago on the back of the fact that his grandfather, my father, was born in Ireland.

[ichkeria]

Good for him.
I despair at some of the anti-EU stuff on here to be honest

[New Judge]

"For some it is uncomfortable to learn that, following the most recent developments, there are British nationals who previously would not bother to look for a different nationality but are now eager to."

It is not at all uncomfortable for me. It is a perfectly reasonable response from people who want to remain a citizen of an EU member nation (and OG correctly points out the significance of that vs "EU citizenship") post-Brexit. It is far more reasonable than expecting the UK to remain in the EU (or to agree, on leaving, to anything which smacks of EU membership in all but name) when the majority of those who voted said they wanted to leave.

"I know of someone (a born and bred Brit) who intends to apply for citizenship of a country which is not in the EU,..."

Er..why? He doesn't need to. He can stay in the UK and after next March he will have citizenship of a country that is not in the EU.

"I despair at some of the anti-EU stuff on here to be honest"

You may well despair but you should not be surprised.

[Jennykenny]

Sorry, ‘bred’.

[-Talbot-]

I despair at some of the anti-EU stuff on here to be honest



I despair at some of the anti-UK stuff on from the EU to be honest

[Gromit]

It’ll be all OK.
The transition period out of the EU will last forever.
We will not properly leave because May and her party are completely useless.

[ichkeria]

I’m slightly surprised at the vehemence NJ. All out entitled to their view of course and there are good and honourable reasons for opposing or being sceptical of the EU but some of it feels like self parody to be honest :-)

[ToraToraTora]

the figures seem reasonable to me, why do you doubt them?

[Gromit]

JennyKenny.
The report is about taking citizenship, which is different than just getting an Irish passport. Only 500 have gone the whole way and become Irish citizens, but...

// More than 160,000 Irish passports were issued to people in Northern Ireland and Britain in 2017. At the same time, the number of people born in Britain registering as Irish rocketed by 95%. //