BRILL: Angry, worried, defiant: Luxembourg's Brits grapple with Brexit | #EU #Europe | Luxembourg (Europe) | Scoop.it
From www.wort.lu - November 8, 2017 2:46 PM
Let down by all sides

Still, today, when talking about the situation, Godfrey says there's "still a lot of anger".

"There's resignation," she says. "Some people are saying 'I've lived here for a long time, I'm taking that citizenship, and that's it – I'll be Luxembourgish. If they've got property in the UK, they've sold it. They're really turning their backs on the UK and embracing life here in Luxembourg as Luxembourgers, which is perhaps as it should be."

The growing number of naturalisation requests from British citizens in Luxembourg would seem to support that view. From January to September, the Luxembourg government received 320 naturalisation requests from said citizens. In 2016, there were just 192. Over the three years before then, the number ranged between 62 and 56.

 

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