QUOTE (Deutsche Welle)
Immigration and naturalization authorities in the city-state of Berlin have egg on their faces after the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and the German online edition of the news magazine Der Spiegel reported that a form misleadingly seemed to ask would-be citizens about their race.
The form in question -- the IC 228 Declaration for Citizenship Application -- contains the clause: "I hereby grant my express permission ... for the processing ... of personal data in special categories, in this case concerning racial and ethnic origin.
...Is membership in a certain race a relevant criterion for citizenship? ... In the case of the IC 228, there could be a happy end. According to the Spiegel article, the wording is to be reviewed and will probably be changed -- once Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs gets back from a winter vacation
The form in question -- the IC 228 Declaration for Citizenship Application -- contains the clause: "I hereby grant my express permission ... for the processing ... of personal data in special categories, in this case concerning racial and ethnic origin.
...Is membership in a certain race a relevant criterion for citizenship? ... In the case of the IC 228, there could be a happy end. According to the Spiegel article, the wording is to be reviewed and will probably be changed -- once Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs gets back from a winter vacation
Is not too bad, I mean, it would be fixed, but after vacations...
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