The European Union statistics office publishes interesting statistics related to the acquisition of citizenship in the EU. Yesterday was the anniversary of my Irish one, so I pulled out some stats related to Ireland.

The first chart shows the increase in the number of new citizens from 2011, when the government streamlined the process of reviewing applications, cutting a very important backlog.

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The data contains additional information about the origin of the naturalised citizens both from the EU and Non-EU countries:

Living in Europe with a European passport definitely makes life way easier, so thank you very much, Ireland.

Wikipedia has a list of the terrorist incidents that happened during the current year. Based on this information, the countries most affected by the number of terror incidents are:

Playing with treemaps. Here is one with the GDP of the countries of the European Union. Germany and the United Kingdom are the biggest ones.