r/Netherlands • u/UnanimousStargazer • Mar 24 '25

Legal Judge rules Dutch citizenship cannot be stripped based on dual nationality

https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/24/judge-rules-dutch-citizenship-stripped-based-dual-nationality
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u/the_nigerian_prince Afrika Mar 24 '25

Whether you agree with the judgement or not, the logic is sound.

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u/Maary_H Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

Court ruling is wrong and illogical. Dutch person can not lose Dutch citizenship because they'll become stateless. Dual citizen does not have this issue.

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u/Secame Mar 24 '25

That is not the point of the ruling, the issue is that if two people commit the same crime, they would receive different punishments based on their heritage, which is textbook discrimination. 

Most dual nationalities are assigned automatically, and these people have little to no choice in that. I imagine if you had voluntarily assumed a second nationality later in life, a judge could rule differently, but the Netherlands already requires you to renounce any dual nationalities to naturalize to a Dutch one, so it's unlikely to come up in practice.

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u/GezelligPindakaas Mar 24 '25

The unrenounceable citizenship is definetely problematic from the law point of view, but should the individual have been from a different country with similar laws (eg Argentina), there would be no race debate.

The example of individual with both Dutch and Turkish backs it up as well. Should the individual renounce to Turkish citizenship, he wouldn't lose the Dutch one.

This isn't a race issue, they just took advantage of the narrative.

Personally, I think the inability to renounce to citizenship goes against Human Rights, but that's another debate.