If we're pragmatic about it Moldova joining the EU isn't worth it(even if you exclude Russia not approving it and troonistria chimping out) since most Moldovans have Romanian citizenship too and get all the EU perks the average Radu(mainly free movement to the western EU countries) gets with none of the drawbacks.
I’m interested in how that works - is it much like how NIrish residents can get it through having had previous generations of relatives in the Republic..?
Which raises interesting points in places where this doesn’t apply (such as ethnic Croats in Bosnia, for example)…
But I suppose we can’t possibly expect them to apply the same rules everywhere. Tis an interesting thought experiment, though…
I don’t even know how Cyprus manages that (presumably they’re just not in Schengen?), let alone all these other cases…
I’m interested in how that works - is it much like how NIrish residents can get it through having had previous generations of relatives in the Republic..?
If you can prove your ancestors(up to great-grandparents, or grandparents if they willingly relinquished it) had Romanian citizenship(which during the inter-war period, also meant being born in today's Moldova, some parts of Ukraine and Bulgaria) you're entitled to regain it. Though given the soviets' efforts to russify the region a sizeable chunk of the population is not eligible.
I don’t even know how Cyprus manages that (presumably they’re just not in Schengen?),
Cypurs is not in schengen and until the Northern Cyprus dispute ends probably never will. Not sure about how cypriot citizenship works in that circumstance, if it's more like Romania or more like the baltics(where russian minorities who didn't go through naturalization are granted non-citizen passports that bars them from any EU rights they might be entitled to if they had full citizenship).
If we're pragmatic about it Moldova joining the EU isn't worth it(even if you exclude Russia not approving it and troonistria chimping out) since most Moldovans have Romanian citizenship too and get all the EU perks the average Radu(mainly free movement to the western EU countries) gets with none of the drawbacks.
I’m interested in how that works - is it much like how NIrish residents can get it through having had previous generations of relatives in the Republic..?
Which raises interesting points in places where this doesn’t apply (such as ethnic Croats in Bosnia, for example)…
But I suppose we can’t possibly expect them to apply the same rules everywhere. Tis an interesting thought experiment, though…
I don’t even know how Cyprus manages that (presumably they’re just not in Schengen?), let alone all these other cases…
If you can prove your ancestors(up to great-grandparents, or grandparents if they willingly relinquished it) had Romanian citizenship(which during the inter-war period, also meant being born in today's Moldova, some parts of Ukraine and Bulgaria) you're entitled to regain it. Though given the soviets' efforts to russify the region a sizeable chunk of the population is not eligible.
Cypurs is not in schengen and until the Northern Cyprus dispute ends probably never will. Not sure about how cypriot citizenship works in that circumstance, if it's more like Romania or more like the baltics(where russian minorities who didn't go through naturalization are granted non-citizen passports that bars them from any EU rights they might be entitled to if they had full citizenship).
Huh, TIL!
I didn’t know any of that (I should have, about Cyprus at least, but I didn’t). Thanks!
All very complicated…
The Soviets’ tendency to move ethnic groups around at will obviously contributes to that…
I guess what you say about the Baltics applies also to the Russkies that stayed in Poland, East Germany, etc., after 1991..?
Honestly, this is all definitely interesting, but I guess I haven’t thought about it in detail before…
The only Russians I met in Sweden presumably had citizenship (as they owned property), lol.
Are you Romanian then? Definitely an interesting part of the world!