According to the latest figures of Eurostat released on Monday, Bulgaria granted citizenship to 900 foreign nationals in 2014.
In 99 % of the cases, those granted Bulgarian citizenship came from non-EU countries.
This is the second highest rate of granting citizenship to non-EU citizens after Estonia where all people granted Estonian citizenship were from countries outside the EU.
At the EU level, 89 % of those granted EU citizenship came from countries outside the EU.
Bulgaria granted the largest number of citizenships to Ukrainians (22.4 %), followed by Russians (16.2 %) and Moldovans (14 %).
In 2014, the 28 member states of the EU …read more
Source: Novinite
