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Old 01-30-2013, 07:45 PM
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Actually, depends on the individual country's law -- there's no such thing as EU citizenship, only citizenship in an EU state which conveys certain rights in other member states under the Schengen treaty.

Poland, for example, recognizes citizenship via line of descent regardless of dual citizenship. (Unless dual citizenship was acquired before 1950.)

On the other hand, in Slovakia, if the grandparents took foreign citizenship at any time, they renounced their Czechoslovak citizenship since dual citizenship isn't recognized. Meaning that citizenship won't convey to the grandchild.

Germany also changed their law for children born outside of Germany after 2000 -- they need to be registered with the embassy before a certain age for citizenship to convey.
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