Nearly a quarter of new passports handed out in the EU were granted in the United Kingdom, according to new figures. London handed out citizenships to 193,900 people – representing 24 percent of all new passports approved across the EU’s 28-country area in 2012. In all, 818,000 citizenships were granted across the union, with Morroccans and Turks the chief beneficiaries.
The data, released by the European Commission’s statistics office Eurostat, also reveals significant changes in Ireland, Hungary and Sweden
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INC News, 21/11/2014
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