German vice-chancellor and Green party suggest offering citizenship to resident Brits who

[pampango]

want to remain in the EU.

Germany should offer citizenship to young Britons living in Germany given that mostly older voters in England and Wales wanted Brexit, the country’s economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said. “That’s why we shouldn’t just pull up the drawbridge,” he told a Social Democrat party (SPD) conference in Berlin.

Gabriel, who is also the vice-chancellor, told his party that the EU should think about what it could offer young Britons: “Let’s offer it to the young Brits who live in Germany, Italy or France so that they can remain EU citizens in this country.”

The opposition Green party has called for Germany to make it easy for Britons living there to get a German passport.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/02/brexit-news-live-thousands-march-for-europe-in-post-referendum-protest

Something needs to be done for the Brits living in Europe and the Europeans living in Britain. There are over a million British citizens living in other European countries. Not sure how many there are in Germany. I am not sure if other European countries offering citizenship to Brits living in their countries who want to stay in Europe but is is one solution and a generous offer at any rate. I doubt many Conservatives in the UK will consider making that offer to resident Europeans in the UK since their main goal was to get rid of them.

Brexit negotiations should be interesting whenever the Conservatives get around to actually filing Article 50 which they seem in no hurry to do. It's almost like there was no plan for what to do if the referendum succeeded.

[Ghost Dog]

1. Good. Such citizenship should especially be facilitated, imo,

for those British cits like me who haved lived more than 15 years elsewhere in the EU and were therefore arbitrarily disenfranchised in this referendum.

To obtain Spanish nationality and citizenship would not be difficult for me. Spain, however, with some exceptions, does not permit dual nationality... unlike, currently, the UK.

So, until offered dual nationality in some EU country, I'll be keeping an eye on my mother's Scotland (and on the Shetlands in particular).

[OnDoutside]

3. The Irish Passport office in London has been flooded with applications from 2nd & 3rd Generation

Irish.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Yes. My niece, with an Irish mother,

and born in Edinburgh, can go for that. Then her kids could, too.

[OnDoutside]

5. Just beware that they are snowed under at the moment, from the peak Holiday season, best wait until

something like October.

[OnDoutside]

2. There's an opportunity for the British Royal family to be re-patriated then ;) Hi Von Battenbergs !