European Citizenship

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 14 March 2018.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:43, 14 March 2018

I've raised related questions on previous occasions with the previous Counsel General about the impact of the Vienna convention, I think, of 1969 on vested treaty rights. But would the Counsel General agree with me that one of the problems, which the EU has at the moment, which is causing electorates all over the continent to become more and more restive is the indiscriminate granting of EU citizenship? Italy alone, this year, granted 850,000 people citizenship, largely because, as a result of Schengen, that gets them out of Italy and into other countries, and that, therefore, firm control over migration is just as important for the rest of the European Union as it is indeed for the United Kingdom.