A stateless person is someone who has no nationality. Statelessness affects over half a million people in Europe - both recent migrants and those who have lived in the same place for generations – denying many their fundamental rights.
The Statelessness Index assesses how countries in Europe protect stateless people and what they are doing to prevent and reduce statelessness.
On 25 June 2026, the Belgian Constitutional Court issued an important judgment on the country’s new administrative residence procedure for stateless...
