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890,000 citizens from third countries acquired a nationality from EU in 2014

Brussels, 13/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - In 2014, around 890,000 people acquired the nationality of a member state of the European Union. According to the European Union Statistical Office (Eurostat), this is a decrease of 9% compared with 2013, where the figure stood at 981,000 people.

Since 2009, more than 5 million people in total were granted the nationality of an EU member state. Among those obtaining the nationality of an EU member state in 2014, 89% of them were not initially EU...