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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.
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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.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:20AM
I suspect the EU would sanction France if they actually past it in their Constitution. Europe in general appears to be pretty sensitive on the subject due to the events of 1936-1945 (and I'm trying to avoid godwinning this thread). Some countries require you to renounce citizenship if you become a dual citizen (Japan is probably the most prominent that does this, but there are others), but that's (usually) if you gain a second citizenship in addition to your home one.
As for my side of the pond, SCOTUS has ruled revocation of a natural-born citizenship is cruel and unusual punishment. It is an option in the case of someone who has nationalized, and holds dual citizenship, though very rarely practiced.
Still always moving