If you built your life plan around "move to Europe, get residency, become a citizen in five years" — throw out that plan. Not because it's wrong everywhere. Because in 2026, almost every country that used to make that promise quietly rewrote it, in the same twelve-month window, without any of them referencing each other. The 2026 European Citizenship Reckoning: Six Countries, Five Crackdowns, and One Very Loud Exception We've spent the past few months tracking these changes o