Citizenship and the European Union 1. Introduction The idea and practice of European citizenship is relevant in two main ways to the recent controversy in Germany over plans by the governing Social- Democratic Party to reform citizenship law. One of these is that the concepts of citizenship and nationality continue to be thought of as synonymous in Germany but are now relatively distinct, both linguistically and politically, in several other national regimes and in the European …showed first 75 words of 5988 total…

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