The European Convention on Nationality and the right to have rights

The European Convention on Human Rights grants no rights to a nationality and fitful efforts at the international and European levels to ensure that every person has at least one nationality have resulted in only the partial elimination of statelessness. Author examines the 1997 European Convention on Nationality (ECN). Because nationality of the European Union Member States now falls within the scope of Community Law, the ECN can supply guidelines which should be followed in deciding issues affecting acquisition and loss of citizenship of the Union.