{"id":137096,"date":"2025-01-29T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:05:51","slug":"fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Which European countries practice birthright citizenship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137096\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>President Donald Trump incorrectly said that the US is &#8221;the only country&#8221; that automatically confers citizenship to children born in its territory. What&#8217;s the situation like in Europe? President Donald Trump recently said that the US is the only country in the world that offers citizenship to a child born on its soil, regardless of the parents&#8217; nationality.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comments on his first day back in office, as he sat in the Oval Office signing off a raft of executive orders, attempting to enact one of his campaign promises. &#8221;It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; he said. &#8221;We are the only country in the world that does this with the birthright, as you know, and it&#8217;s just absolutely ridiculous.&#8221; But this isn\u2019t true \u2014 plenty of other countries practice the principle of unrestricted jus soli, meaning &#8221;right of soil&#8221;, including the US&#8217;s neighbours, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most of the countries offering automatic citizenship to those born there are in the Americas, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. Over in Europe however, the majority of states practice the principle of jus sanguinis \u2014 which gives citizenship to a child if one or both of their parents are of that nationality. No country in the EU grants automatic and unconditional citizenship to children born there to foreign parents, according to a European Parliament briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries do have a form of jus soli, but it comes with conditions, most often that the parents must have lived in the country for a certain amount of time before the child is born. European countries that have such rules include Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and the UK. Some states practice double jus soli \u2014 this is when children born in a country to foreign citizens can acquire citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents was also born in the country. Children automatically acquire citizenship this way in France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Belgium and Greece also have double jus soli but with certain conditions attached.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/01\/29\/fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/01\/29\/fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/fact-check-which-european-countries-practice-birthright-citizenship\/\">Fact check: Which European countries practice birthright citizenship?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17764,696,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-birthright-citizenship","tag-europe","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}