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Article: Germany Opens Up.(German citizenship law)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- June 21, 1999
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While international attention focused on the German Greens' tumultuous party Congress on May 13-at which Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and his faction prevailed in the vote on continuing party support for the NATO bombing of Kosovo-another even more significant victory for the Social Democratic-Green coalition went largely unremarked. On May 7 the German Parliament voted nearly 2 to 1 to retire an eighty-six-year-old "law of blood" (or jus sanguinis), which had based German citizenship on ethnic descent. In its place came a law of territory (or jus soli), which grants German citizenship to almost anyone born on German soil to parents who have resided and worked in the ...
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