In 2019, more than 706,000 people from non-EU countries acquired citizenship of an EU Member State, according to data released by the EU’s statistical office (Eurostat) on Monday 15 March.
These include: - 66,800 Moroccans (9% of the total) residing mainly in Spain, Italy and France; - 41,700 Albanians (6%), mainly in Italy; - 29,800 Britons (4%), 75% of whom live in Germany, Sweden and France; - 29,100 Syrians (4%), 69% of them in Sweden; - 28,600 Turks (4%), of whom 57% became Germans.