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 Union
(EU). Secondly, on the one hand, new German provisions will be more
similar than before to the nationality…
