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posted by n1 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the with-them-or-against-us dept.

The Washington Post reports:

Hollande is expected to put forward a bill this week to extend a state of emergency for three months, enhancing police power to restrict freedom of movement and gatherings at public places.

At Versailles, he also proposed constitutional changes that would allow authorities to withdraw French citizenship from people with dual nationality, even if they were born in France, and to prevent French terrorism suspects from returning to France.

(Emphasis added.)

I feel this would be unproductive; among the problems Europe has long faced is that the children and even grandchildren of immigrants feel unwelcome in the nations of their birth: I understand there are some European countries in which birth does not convey citizenship. President Hollande's proposal would dramatically exacerbate the problem and so give rise to further terrorism.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by BK on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:46PM

    by BK (4868) on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:46PM (#264922)

    Citizenship in this case has more to do with transit than anything else.

    International law seems to allow me to be a citizen of any country that will agree that I am a citizen. Fine. It also says that I can have a passport - travel documents - from each of these places. In effect, I seem to be able to have multiple identities. When I encounter a political border, I get to choose which one I use.

    How does this apply to France? Or to any EU state?

    When a person crosses into the EU with a French passport, they might receive different scrutiny than if they cross with a Syrian passport. Worse, their French identity may be flagged for possible terrorism while their Hungarian passport is not. This creates problems.

    This measure does not fix terrorism, but if the entire EU took this approach, it would make security checks at legitimate crossings and via normal transit much more effective.

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