Statelessness, Mr. Boriss Cilevics, MP, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), special rapporteur on statelessness and European Convention on Nationality

The AEDH held on May 31st, and June 1st and 2nd its annual seminar and its General Assembly. The General Assembly took place in Tallinn, Estonia, and dealt with the issue of citizenship, in the frame of the European year of Citizens.
The public seminar “citizenship, citizenships” of May, 31th aimed to gather member organisations of the AEDH, academic experts en members of the European Parliament as to enable discussions and exchanged view regarding core aspects of the EU citizenship, notably the issue of statelessness, the citizenship of residence and the social citizenship. This seminar was also the opportunity for member organisations of the AEDH to exchange best practices

The first panel aimed to picture the lack of access to citizenship in Europe. As to argue that the European Citizenship is the core issue of Europe’s future, speakers based their interventions on the current European legal framework on citizenship and highlighted the main interaction spheres between the European and National citizenship.

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