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In 2011, the Greek state granted citizenship to 17,500 people as indicated by Eurostat data. This figure is almost twice as high than in 2010 when just 9,400 foreigners had acquired Greek citizenship. The trend contradicts the European Union’s general attitude towards granting citizenship to a decreasing number of foreigners. In 2011, the 27 states granted citizenship to 783,100 people while in 2010 this figure was 812,400.
    However, as a whole, acquiring citizenship in Greece is the most difficult compared with the other European Union states. The Greek state granted citizenship to just 1.8% of the foreign applicants whereas the average rate in the European Union was 2.3%. Hungary, which approved the applications for citizenship of 9.8 % of the foreigners living there, is the champion, followed by Poland with 6.7% and Sweden with 5.8%.
    As for the opposite process, namely the acquisition of foreign citizenship by Greeks living abroad, Greece already falls within the European Union average of 1.6%. The champions in acquiring foreign citizenship are Sweden with 3.9%, the UK with 2.8% and Cyprus with 2.6 %.
    The Albanian nationality holds the lead as regards the acquisition of Greek citizenship - 88.1% of the new Greek citizens are from Albania. Russians rank second with 1.6%, Georgians third with 1.4% and Armenians fourth with 0.9%. Conversely, Greece holds the lead in the acquisition of Cypriot citizenship, 25.2%, followed by the UK with 15.2%, Macedonia 13.8% and Russia 7.8%.
    At European level, the largest number of Moroccans acquired citizenship, 8.2%, followed by Turks with 6.2%, Ecuadorians 4.3% and Indians with 4%.

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