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Emmen is a municipality
Municipalities of Switzerland

Municipalities are the smallest government division in Switzerland, and are called Gemeinden in German language, communes in French language, comuni in Italian language and vischnancas in Romansh language....
 in the district of Hochdorf
Hochdorf (district)

Hochdorf is one of the five ?mtern, or districts, of the German language-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Hochdorf, Lucerne....
 in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland

File:Karte 13 Alte Orte.pngThe 26 cantons of Switzerland are the State s of the federation of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereignty state with its own borders, army and currency until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848....
 of Lucerne in Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
.

It is part of the metropolitan area of Lucerne
Lucerne

Lucerne is a city in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and seat of the Lucerne with the same name. With a population of 57,890, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland and focal point of the region....
. The municipality also includes Emmenbrücke.

The main industry is the Steel-Industrie, EMMI (Switzerland's biggest Milk-Corporation) as well as a division of Ruag, the Swiss Armed Forces supplier. There is the so called ´golden triangle´ of the sewage plant, the air force base and the waste incinerating plant.






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Emmen is a municipality
Municipalities of Switzerland

Municipalities are the smallest government division in Switzerland, and are called Gemeinden in German language, communes in French language, comuni in Italian language and vischnancas in Romansh language....
 in the district of Hochdorf
Hochdorf (district)

Hochdorf is one of the five ?mtern, or districts, of the German language-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Hochdorf, Lucerne....
 in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland

File:Karte 13 Alte Orte.pngThe 26 cantons of Switzerland are the State s of the federation of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereignty state with its own borders, army and currency until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848....
 of Lucerne in Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
.

It is part of the metropolitan area of Lucerne
Lucerne

Lucerne is a city in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and seat of the Lucerne with the same name. With a population of 57,890, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland and focal point of the region....
. The municipality also includes Emmenbrücke.

The main industry is the Steel-Industrie, EMMI (Switzerland's biggest Milk-Corporation) as well as a division of Ruag, the Swiss Armed Forces supplier. There is the so called ´golden triangle´ of the sewage plant, the air force base and the waste incinerating plant. Because of the Emmen Air Force Base and the Emmen Flab Caserne, the most of the habitants are diretly or indirectly members of the Air Force
Swiss Air Force

The Swiss Air Force is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces. It was established on July 31, 1914 but did not become a separate service until 1936, and an independent service separate from the Army until 1 January 1996....
.

The naturalization law


The city of Emmen hit international headlines in 2001 when it announced new naturalization law. While there are some fixed requirements for obtaining Swiss citizenship by naturalization
Naturalization

Naturalization is the acquisition of citizenship or nationality by somebody who was not a citizen or national of that country when he or she was born....
 set at the federal level, such as the requirement to live and work for 12 years and speak the local language, Swiss cantons and communities are free to introduce more stringent requirements. Until 2001, naturalization was run by a popularly elected committee
Committee

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole"....
. But Emmen decided to have the citizens themselves run the nationalization process, requiring that potential citizens pass a series of tests and public interviews and subjecting citizenship applications to the public vote.

This process prevented many Yugoslav
Yugoslavia

File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
s-Swiss people, the largest ethnic group among citizenship candidates (Emmen has one of the largest of ex-Yugoslav community in Switzerland), from getting the citizenship. Human rights campaigners said that the public interviews and voting were degrading. In July 2003, the practice was ruled discriminatory and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the supreme court of Switzerland. It is located in Lausanne.According to the Constitution of Switzerland, the court has jurisdiction over violations of:...
 . Emmen has since returned to the previous system of naturalization committees.

Population by nationality

Population by nationality (2000 census)
NationalityResidents with dual citizens
Switzerland 18'171 19'456
Serbia-Montenegro 2'332 2'408
Italy 1'299 1'811
Croatia 678 741
Bosnia-Herzegowina 711 727
Spain 500 564
Portugal 449 461
Sri Lanka 286 334
Macedonia 320 326
Germany 212 295
Turkey 152 169
Austria 89 123


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