Dual Citizenship: Merkel Government Ponders Who Is a German - Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government has promised to introduce dual citizenship for children born to immigrants in Germany. Now, though, the left and right are fighting over what exactly that means. A new integration debate could result. -- Aydan Özoguz has come a long way. As a newly appointed state minister, Özoguz, of the center-left Social Democrats, has moved into several offices in the Chancellery with her team. Her core area of responsibility, integration, is one of the key issues for Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government. -- "We have broken a taboo," said SPD head Sigmar Gabriel when Merkel's new coalition government, which pairs her conservatives with the SPD, reached agreement on allowing immigrants to maintain dual citizenship. He was also proud of the fact that he was able to place Özoguz -- the Germany-born daughter of Turkish immigrants --in Merkel's immediate surroundings, as a kind of bridgehead in the Chancellery. -- But now it is becoming apparent that the celebrated dual citizenship deal isn't quite what it seemed at first. As soon as one starts looking at the details, it becomes apparent that the SPD and the conservatives have different ideas as to how a new law might look. And that promises to present Özoguz with her first great challenge. -- In coalition talks prior to establishing the new government, the SPD and the conservatives agreed to do away with the requirement that children of immigrants born in Germany must decide in early adulthood which citizenship they would like to keep. Now, however, conservative politicians are seeking to place new hurdles in the way of dual citizenship. - More, Der Spiegel, at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-efforts-at-dual-citizenship-hit-crossroads-a-951626.html