Opera chief leads Brexit way to new passport
mainIt is reported that Nicolas Mansfield, director of Netherlands Touring Opera, has applied for a Dutch passport in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the EU.
It wll mean giving up his UK citizenship as the Dutch don’t permit dual nationality.
Many other Brits in the arts will follow suit.
We hear of a rush yesterday on the consular facilities at several London embassies.
So let them. They are unlikely to be missed.
The language of music is international.
The language of Brexit has too often been ugly, and insular in the wrong way.
I presume it works for him because he is employed in the NL, but they don’t just issue passports to anybody, right?
The Dutch do allow dual nationality. It depends if you become Dutch via naturalisation or an ‘optieverklaring’.