Posted by Jean-Yves on Jul 3, 2019
A year before the Brexit referendum of 2016, Portugal and Spain passed laws which offered Sephardic Jews—those whose families once lived on the Iberian peninsula—a path to citizenship. Each country intended the gesture to act as recompense for the forcible exile of Jews in the 1490s, in one of the first acts of the Spanish Inquisition.
But the two countries have unwittingly offered a lifeline for Remainers anxious to retain EU citizenship after Britain leaves the bloc.
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WHO WOULD KNOW THAT, THANKS
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Marvelous!
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It is a pity I cannot read the story in full without registering with The Economist. The story of our behaviour towards the Jews haunts us, as it should.
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If I could show that I had Sephardic Jewish Ancestry who lived in Spain or Portugal prior to the inquisition, could I seek EU citizenship in this way? Would it help or hinder if those my ancestral line went back to England on the way back to Iberia?