 "35,000 Indians acquired European Union citizenship in 2014")
Around 35,000 Indians acquired citizenship of a member state of the European Union in 2014.
Around 890,000 persons globally acquired EU citizenship, of whom 35,300 were Indians, according to Eurostat.
The EU's statistical bureau said 63.6% Indians opted for citizenship in Britain, 14.2% for Italy and 8.3% for Ireland.
The number of Pakistanis acquiring an EU citizenship in 2014 was 25,100, of whom 51.7% took the citizenship of Britain, 16.8% of Italy and 13.2% of Spain.
The largest number of citizenship of an EU member state in 2014 was acquired by Moroccans (92,700 persons), ahead of Albania (41,000), Turkey (37,500) followed by India, Eurostat reported.
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