Citizenship and identity
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Estonia: Power to the people – sort of
8 January 20134822PresseuropPostimees, Eesti Päevaleht -
Nationality: Multiple citizenship, way of the future
11 January 201231316 The Economist London -
Eurozone crisis: UK prepares to rescue Eurogeddon refugees
19 December 201163PresseuropThe Times -
Citizenship: It's Greece versus Rome, and Rome rules
8 December 2011PresseuropBlog -
Eurozone crisis: Europe returns to national identity
16 September 201132715 The Guardian London -
Iceland: A new constitution, via Facebook
4 July 201115232 Sydsvenskan Malmö -
Poland: Poles dying for US citizenship
11 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Estonia: Some nationality disorder
5 May 2011573 Postimees Tallinn -
Poland: Why we heart the Czechs
9 February 20112262 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 10: A multicultural renaissance
2 January 201150710 Presseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 9: Yearning to remain optimistic
1 January 20111421 Presseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 8: Negotiation rocks
31 December 201075 Presseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 6: EU’ll grow out of it
29 December 20103042 Presseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 1: Pariah therefore European
23 December 20101865 Presseurop -
Enlargement: EU’s backdoor thrown open
16 August 2010892 Le Figaro Paris -
Immigration: Why Europe needs semi-citizens
2 August 2010731 Corriere della Sera Milan -
EUROPHRENIA: Burqa ban, and why not plastic surgery too?
21 April 2010PresseuropBlog -
Identity: In praise of the manifold self
19 February 20101812 De Standaard Brussels -
Europhrenia: Burqa barbarous, but a ban is wrong
3 February 2010PresseuropBlog -
Czech Republic: Santa go home
21 December 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
Netherlands: National identity? No thanks
17 December 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Debate: National identity is...
11 December 2009121 Presseurop -
France: 200 questions on national identity
23 November 2009PresseuropL'Humanité -
Editorial: National puzzles
13 November 2009Presseurop -
France: Sarkozy accused of neo-Pétainism
28 October 2009PresseuropL'Humanité -
Citizenship: Doing away with the national question
7 October 2009Postimees Tallinn -
Moldova: The emperor, the miller and the judge
28 July 20091 Timpul Chisinau -
National Identity: Where Germans dare
15 May 20092 Der Spiegel Hamburg
In an increasingly globalized and racially mixed world, it's natural to have multiple identities. That's why states should loosen up naturalisation rights and grant the right to vote more easily, says The Economist. 
The looming Greek default has brought an arrogant and overbearing EU to a turning point. And a return to a national dimension is the outcome we can look forward to, writes a British columnist. 
Begun after the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent fall of the government under popular pressure, Iceland’s citizen revolution continues. The most recent example is that all internet users are called upon to draft the country’s next constitution. 
Since 1991, Estonia has tens been home to tens of thousands of “non-citizens” — Russian-speakers who settled in Estonia in Soviet times. Their numbers are decreasing, but too slowly. Is this Moscow's fault? 
According to a recent survey, Poles are more fond of the Czechs than they are of any other nation. Polish author and Czechophile Mariusz Szczygieł wonders: could it be that the Poles see in their Czech neighbours qualities that they would like to have themselves? 
Say goodbye to conformity, corruption and fawning to elites, and make way for a multicultural melting pot to renew the continent’s sapped energies, writes Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni in a letter to her son. 
Novelist Tim Parks argues for a Europe built on a shared vision, one that gets excited about refashioning the world rather than fighting to keep it as it is. 
The EU's greatest and most beautiful idea? Sitting down at a table for talks that are conducted with tolerance and style, answers Romanian historian Mircea Vasilescu. 
The EU is behaving like a moody teenager trying to come to terms with a growth spurt, remarks French researcher Philippe Perchoc. Only in the mirror of new dreams inspired by fresh political ambitions and new partner countries will it come of age and assume its role in the world. 
Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg says he had to move to New York to begin feeling truly European. This may be because his family’s identity was built on exile and rootlessness. This is a story that, today, applies to many others. 
Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states 
Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to revoke the citizenship of naturalised felons has catapulted the immigration issue back onto the political agenda. Even as governments seek to adjust their legislation to an ever-changing situation, the EU ought to extend European citizenship to immigrants so as to make up for the inadequacies of the existing system. 
Flemish, Walloon, or Belgian? Or European, perhaps? To the writer Geert van Istendael, King Albert II’s subjects’ identity overload is not a handicap. On the contrary: it might even be an inspiration to other peoples in this changing world. 
The national identity debate started up by the French government – in sync with the referendum to ban new minarets in Switzerland – has caused no end of controversy. After all, admonishes the press, European societies have a proven penchant for turning against immigrants. 
Now that the borders have disappeared and its powerful Russian minority is calling for enfranchisement, Estonia is rethinking its concept of “cohabitation”. Postimees argues that this is something all countries should do, especially in light of latter-day immigration. 
After elections in April, which sparked protests in the streets and returned a parliament that was unable to elect a president, Moldovans are returning to the polls for an early general election on 29 July. National daily Timpul wonders if the communists will retain power, and whether the electorate will opt for a Western or Eurasian political model. 
More and more Germans take pride in their national identity. They have developed a laid-back national consciousness, far from the sabre-rattling jingoism of the past, writes Mathias Schreiber for Spiegel Magazine.