 Many nations have a mixture of "jus sanguinis" and "jus soli", including the United States, Canada, Israel, Greece, the Republic of Ireland, and recently Germany.Today French nationality law narrowly applies "jus sanguinis," but it is still the most common means of passing on citizenship in many continental European nations.Some modern European states which arose out of the dissolved Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empires have huge numbers of ethnic populations outside of their new 'national' boundaries, as do most of the former Soviet states.