14 minutes agoRecord in Balkans 390 thousand Albanians have received a passport of EU countries
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)They used to be just immigrants. Already many of the fugitives in the early '90s, or later, have become full-fledged citizens in one of the countries of the European Union. The Monitor has been processing Eurostat data concerning granting citizenship to its members for Albania, starting [...]
The Monitor has been processing Eurostat data related to granting citizenship to its members for Albania, starting in 2002, when it figures and gives out the first passports.
In total, between 2002 and 2017, 391,000 citizenship has been granted to Albanians living in EU countries. Of the some 1.2 million migrants estimated to have left by 2015 (before the new immigration cycle begins), about 305 have already received a passport (these are actually included and children born in one of the EU states)
By 2008, more and more Albanians have managed to obtain a passport, to peak in 2016, with 67.6 thousand and in 2017, with 58.9 thousand of them.
Italy and Greece are the two neighbouring states, not only opening the doors for immigrants in the early 1990s, but now increasingly granting them full rights.
Greece has given between 2002-2017 and 180 thousand passports, or 46% of the total provided by the entire EU, in the last 15 years. The highest number was given in 2016-2017, with 28.5 and 29.5, respectively. Second place, with 175.6 thousand passports, or 45% of total Italy. Only these two countries have provided 91% of the total passports for the period 2002-2015.
