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Louis Dor
May 04, 2016
David Cameron announced at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that the UK will take in more unaccompanied Syrian refugee children from Europe.
The prime minister did not specify a figure, but SNP leader at Westminster Angus Robertson welcomed what he deemed to be the "beginning of a U-turn" on the matter.
A new release from Eurostat has detailed the naturalisation rate of EU countries - that is the share of foreign citizens acquiring citizenship of an EU member state - for 2013, in which the UK ranks highly.
In 2013, EU member states granted citizenship to roughly 980,000 people, a total representing three per cent of all foreign citizens in 27 countries.
Sweden recorded the highest naturalisation rate of EU countries, as the below chart from Statista details:
Three quarters of all citizenship grants at EU-27 level were reported by five countries, Spain (226,000), the United Kingdom (207,000), Germany (112,000), Italy (101,000) and France (97,000).
Non-EU citizens recorded a higher naturalisation rate of 4.3 per cent than foreign EU citizens, who recorded 0.7 per cent.
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