PROBLEMS OF SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE IN A SITUATION OF DOUBLE (MULTIPLE) CITIZENSHIP: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
This paper provides a brief analysis of the issues of sovereignty of the State in situations of dual (multiple) citizenship. Citizenship implies political and legal relationship between the state and an individual that is strong and stable in space and time. This relationship gives the individual and the state the right to a full use of all the benefits arising from their reciprocal rights and responsibilities. By virtue of the exercise of sovereignty a state has the right to extend its legislation to citizens residing in and outside the territory of this state. This provision does not hold if a person simultaneously has the citizenship of two or more states (i.e., is bipatride / multipatride), since, as a general rule, all states of citizenship have the right to extend their authority and jurisdiction to such a person. Such a situation may lead to: a collision of jurisdictional claims of the states considering the above person only as their own citizen; to a unique “blocking”, a restriction of the personal limit of action of the sovereign authority of the state, because the state cannot fully extend its authority to its own citizen who also has another citizenship.