Suchergebnisse

First Online: 13 September 2018 ; This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ; I share Floris de Witte's concern about the attacks on the EU currently coming from the populist right, a challenge epitomized by, but unfortunately not restricted to, the Brexit campaign in the UK. However, I doubt that the best way to answer such misleading rhetoric is to make rhetorical counter-claims. Rather, it is to show that their views are largely without foundation and that far from undermining national citizenship, EU citizenship and free movement defend it in the context of the normative and empirical challenges of an inter-dependent world. States provide the infrastructure on which the rights of citizens depend, with democratic citizenship as the 'right of rights', since it enables citizens to shape that infrastructure in ways that allow them to claim their rights on equal terms to each other. However, as a matter of consistency, citizens have a duty to show the citizens of other states equal concern and respect not only as shapers of the rights within their own state, but also as possessing the right to freely move to other states, and so not be arbitrarily disadvantaged through being born in one state rather than another, so long as such movement allows both the home and the host states to continue to supply the rights of their citizens. I call this argument cosmopolitan statism. It indicates how one can support free movement rights while still holding to the very statist arguments de Witte seeks to challenge. It also offers a plausible characterisation of the nature and role of Union citizenship.

FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL, LOOKS TO THE FUTURE. HE FINDS THAT A PICTURE IS EMERGING IN WHICH WE CAN SEE A COSMOPOLITAN AND GLOBALIZED "HOMO ECONOMICUS" ALONGSIDE A PROVINCIAL "CIVIS," RESTRICTED BY NATIONAL FRONTIERS. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DISPARITY WILL BE FELT ON A LARGE SCALE AND OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE CONSEQUENCES ARE TIED TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE, THE THREAT OF UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE OUTRAGEOUS INEQUALITIES, BOTH WITHIN AND AMONG COUNTRIES, THAT COEXIST WITH UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF PROSPERITY. TO AVOID FACILE SOLUTIONS TO THIS DILEMMA, WE MUST SQUARELY CONFRONT THE FACT THAT THERE IS A DEFICIT OF DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL AND INSIST THAT PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE EXPAND BEYOND THE DOMESTIC SCENE.