Indicator in all countries

Does statelessness serve as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services and/or deprivation of economic and social rights?

• Austria

   

  No.
• Bulgaria

  Yes.

• Cyprus

  Yes

• Denmark

  n/a

• Finland

  Yes, there are grounds to believe that statelessness serves as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services.

• France

  There are some rectrictions in the area of economic and social rights of stateless persons.

• Germany

  No.

• Greece

  No

• Hungary

  yes

• Ireland

  Ireland is a signatory of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 1961. This convention allows signatories to ‘to elaborate the content of their nationality laws,’ though only ‘in compliance with international norms relating to nationality, including the principle that statelessness should be avoided.’ In the case of a stateless person the Minister will normally waive 2 of the 5 years' reckonable residence requiremed for naturalisation.

• Italy

  no

• Poland

  Yes/No.

• Portugal

  No, statelessness does not serve as ground for discrimination.

• Romania

  The term "statelessness" is not mentioned as such in the list of grounds of discrimination, but it could be covered by the expression "any other ground".
   

• Slovenia

  Yes. The general clause "any other personal ground" does also include statelessness.
   

• Spain

  No, recognized stateless persons  have the same rights and obligations under the Law 4 / 2000 on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and their social integration.

• Sweden

  No.