Slightly more than 10% of the people who acquired citizenship from a member state of the European Union in 2021 are Moroccans, says a report of the office in charge of statistics at the European Union (Eurostat) published on March 1st.
86,200 out of the 827,000 people who have acquired the citizenship of a European state are Moroccan. Moroccans, Syrians and Albanians remain the main beneficiaries two years in a row.
In 2021, 31% of those acquiring citizenship of an EU member state were in the top 5 with Romanians and Turks for once ahead of Brazilians.
In 2021, as in 2020, Moroccans were the largest group of new EU citizens (86,200 people, 71% of whom acquired Spanish or French nationality).
In the top 10, Moroccans are ahead of Syrians (83,500), 70% of whom have acquired Swedish or Dutch nationality. Albanians are on the podium with 32,300 people, 70% of whom have acquired Italian nationality.
Then come 28,600 Romanians, 33% of whom have acquired Italian nationality, Turks 25,700 (48% have acquired German nationality) and Brazilians (20,400), 65% of whom have acquired nationality in Portugal or Italy.
Algerians come in seventh place with 19,300 naturalizations (80% having acquired French nationality). They are followed by the Russians 17,300 of whom 45% acquired German and French nationality) and 16,600 Pakistanis (62% acquired Spanish and Italian nationality).
The overall total of beneficiaries (827,000) is up by 14% (+98,300 people) compared to one before. Most new nationalities in 2021 were granted by Spain (144,800, or 17% of the EU total), France (130,400, or 16%), Germany (130,000, or 16%), Italy (121,500, or 15%), and Sweden (89,400, or 11%).
France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Austria are the countries with the highest number of nationalities with respectively +43,900, +18,800, +17,700, +9,200 and +7,200.
On the other hand, the largest decreases were observed in Italy -10,300 Italian nationalities granted compared to 2020, Portugal -7,600, Greece -3,200, Finland -1,200 and Cyprus (-800).
In total, 10 EU countries recorded a decrease in the number of citizenships granted. Citizens of another EU country accounted for 13% of the total number of citizenships acquired.
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