# Coalition moves to slow the 2024 citizenship-law easing

Date: 2025

In July 2025 the [Merz](/people/friedrich-merz) coalition moved to revisit the traffic-light citizenship reform that had shortened naturalisation. A revisit is not yet a repeal. The opening is a completed nationality-policy act.

## People

- Friedrich Merz: https://factrail.ai/people/friedrich-merz

## Drivers

- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-revisit-citizenship-reform-merz-2025-07-16/
- https://www.bmi.bund.de/EN/topics/migration/citizenship.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/de-merz-citizenship-tightening-2025