Citizenship applications leapt by 361% in 2016 as a record number of almost 3000 UK citizens became German“It feels very unfamiliar to be a first-time voter at the age of 68,” says Michael Lawton, a retired TV producer living in Berlin who acquired German citizenship final September. Lawton is one of several thousand Britons who obtained German passports in the wake of the Brexit referendum, and fearing the loss of his rights as an EU citizen to live and work in Germany,and who are now eligible to vote for the first time in Sunday’s election.“I rob a lot of satisfaction at knowing that having lived here for decades, I can finally have a say in shaping the country, or ” he says. “Even though I still feel very attached to Britain,when I look at the chaos there over the exit negotiations I despair and feel I hardly understand it anymore, compared to Germany.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com