Beyond nationhood

The Institute of European Studies was established at the University of Toronto in 2003 with seed money from the Commission of the European Communities and the University of Toronto. [...] The mission of the Institute is to promote the study of the European Union in Canada by offering a broad range of scholarly and public outreach activities. [...] Conservatives in the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) have tended to reject dual citizenship and question the merits of jus soli, while centrists in the party have often struggled to reconcile their principles with the demands of party solidarity.5 Given the changes in the German party system since unification, and especially the hardening of divisions between “governing [...] According to Brubaker: Thomas Faist and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos The preservation of German language, culture, and national identity over centuries in the Slavic east and the preservation of Polish lan- guage, culture, and national identity in Eastern Prussia furnished to the German elite a differentialist, bounded model of nationhood, a feeling for the tenacious maintenance of distinctive eth [...] Whereas the SPD, Greens, FDP, and a minority in the CDU supported the introduction of dual citizenship and jus soli, the CSU and conservatives in the CDU rejected these options and argued instead for more modest reforms.