No, he probably can’t.
(Unless he did something about it before 2020-12-31 like getting dual citizenship or the EU Blue Card or living on the continent for a couple of years and so on.)
As they say, Brexit means Brexit.
Source:
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Pretty sure he, his German wife, and his French(?) children are sorted for free movement.
Brexit is for thee, not for me.
ETA
That should probably be for me, not for thee. But I’m barely literate it seems.
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I tried to check this (briefly). They separated six years or so ago, but aren’t divorced. The kids from this, his second marriage, apparently have/had dual British/German citizenship (according to Farange). No word about the kids from his first marriage. Looks like Nigel just has his made-in-Poland-by-a-French-company blue British passport.
Anyway, he’s busy pretending to make artisanal gin in Cornwall, and how could he walk away from that?
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Does a former MEP have right of abode in EU? Since he is taking the pension too.
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That doesn’t answer the question, I was (only vaguely, since I do not care if no-one hears from him again) interested if, having held an elected office in the European Parliament, he was afforded any citizenship rights.
But thanks for pointing out why Malta has been so popular with oligarchs for a while.
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To the best of my knowledge, no.
And why would they?
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Gee, doesn’t that sound familiar?
Signed,
Someone from the U.S.
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The tighter you squeeze…
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“King Declines To Help Children”
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Some more context from wikipedia.
In 1909, South African-born Kingsley Fairbridge founded the “Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies” which was later incorporated as the Child Emigration Society. The purpose of the society, which later became the Fairbridge Foundation, was to educate orphaned and neglected children and train them in farming practices at farm schools located throughout the British Empire. Fairbridge emigrated to Australia in 1912, where his ideas received support and encouragement. According to the British House of Commons Child Migrant’s Trust Report, “it is estimated that some 150,000 children were dispatched over a period of 350 years—the earliest recorded child migrants left Britain for the Virginia Colony in 1618, and the process did not finally end until the late 1960s.” It was widely believed by contemporaries that all of these children were orphans, but it is now known that most had living parents, some of whom had no idea of the fate of their children after they were left in care homes, and some led to believe that their children had been adopted somewhere in Britain.
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The U.S. had something similar, although not for so many generations:
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I have helped some descendants find their true genealogy, hidden because of this issue.
One person, their ancestor was so abused that he ran away from the farm he was assigned to, walking something like 500 miles alone into Canada as a young teen. Took quite a few years to figure out who his immigrant parents had been, back in NYC.
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Oh dear
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