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This paper is not devoted to European citizenship, but rather to the ways we study it. The paper is based on a sample of recent literature on EU citizenship and is developed as follows. Firstly, seven divergent thematizations (the ways EU citizenship is identified and framed) are introduced and analyzed with regard to the problems they show. Then five conceptualizations are presented that come from the same sources, and that should be considered to overcome criticalities. There follows the introduction of a conceptual framework regarding democratic citizenship as an empirical phenomenon. This framework allows the identification of a paradigm that has shaped national citizenship and that is experiencing deep crisis and transformation. European citizenship, from this perspective, can be viewed as anomaly of the paradigm and then appropriately studied.

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate

This book sheds light on the limits and opportunities that are inherent to the institutions and practices of European citizenship, using various empirical examples specifically of minority groups.

AS THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION MOVE TOWARD A COMMON CURRENCY IN THE YEAR 1999, JITTERS HAVE GRIPPED PARTS OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT THAT SEE IN THIS PROCESS THE TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRATIC POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND THE DAWN OF THE REIGN OF EUROCRACY. THIS ARTICLE STATES THAT "NOSTALGIC NATIONALISM" IS NO ANSWER TO THE CHALLENGES FACING THE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT. FURTHERMORE, TO IDENTIFY THE NATION-STATE AS THE PRIVILEGED SITE OF DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IS NEITHER CONCEPTUALLY NOR INSTITUTIONALLY CONVINCING. EMERGING OUT OF A CUSTOMS UNION AND BORDER AGREEMENTS AMONG A HANDFUL OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, WHAT WAS NAMED THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY HAS EVOLVED INTO ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING MULTINATIONAL CONFEDERATIONS IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY. THE EUROPEAN LEFT SHOULD NOT HARKEN AFTER THE DISCREDITED NATIONALISMS OF THE PAST BUT USE ITS IMAGINATION TO THINK UP NEW INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION FOR A POSTNATIONAL EUROPE. THE ARTICLE LISTS SEVERAL IDEAS WHICH WOULD BE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in Open Access in 2021 for research or private study purposes. ; One of the most promising institutional innovations introduced by the Treaty on the European Union signed in Maastricht and by the reform of the European Community which accompanied it has been a new legal status granted equally to all Member States nationals: European Citizenship. The recent Treaty of Amsterdam has since improved and broadened this new status. Political community may be seen to consist of two main elements -- citizenship on the one hand and sovereignty on the other -- so that if we have citizens, there must be a sovereign. This is the reason why, once a European citizenship is established, one may say that, through a kind of `constitutive act', a European supranational society has been founded. In a democratic society, citizens are both the holders and the recipients of sovereignty, so that the scope of citizenship defines the area where sovereignty is operative and from which it may draw its legitimacy. Citizenship should necessarily refer to a society endowed with powers of political self-determination (that is, sovereignty). European citizenship is therefore extremely relevant, since it has a `foundational' character and signals the emergence of a new polity. This book deals with each of these questions and covers all aspects of European citizenship. It is entirely devoted to analysing this new and promising status, studied from a multiplicity of perspectives by a number of outstanding scholars and researchers from most of the member states of the European Union. It will be of prime interest both to lawyers and laypersons who want a better knowledge of the new opportunity for political participation and the new rights created by the European Union for its citizens. ; Preface, Massimo La Torre -- Introduction : European citizenship - identity and differentity, Joseph Weiler -- Part I Citizenship and rights -- Chapter I : the concept of citizenship in the period of the French Revolution, Michel Troper -- Chapter II : citizenship : problems, concepts and policies, Vincenzo Ferrari -- Chapter III : citizenship : a jurisprudential paradox, J. Donald Galloway -- Chapter IV : citizenship and raison d'État. The quest for identity in Central and Eastern Europe, Valentin Petev -- Chapter V : citizenship and nationality : tracing the French roots of the distinction, Benoit Guiguet -- Part II European citizenship and nationality -- Chapter VI : the relationship between the nationality legislation of the member states of the European Union and European citizenship, Gerard-René de Groot -- Chapter VII : German citizenship law and European citizenship : towards a special kind of dual nationality?, Raine Hofmann -- Chapter VIII : a dual citizenship in the making : the citizenship of the European Union and its reform, Jörg Monar -- Chapter IX : the position of resident third-country nationals : is it too early to grant them Union citizenship?, Álvaro Castro Oliveira -- Chapter X : equal citizenship and the difference that residence makes, Ruth Rubio Marín -- Chapter XI : a new basis for European citizenship : residence?, Marie-José Garot -- Part III A special kind of citizenship? -- Chapter XII : fundamental rights and the European citizen, David O'Keeffe and Antonio Bavasso -- Chapter XIII : Union citizenship and the constitutionalization of equality in EU law, Andrew Evans -- Chapter XIV : European citizenship in action : from Maastricht to the Intergovernmental Conference, Epaminondas Marias -- Chapter XV : European citizenship : what is is and what it could be, Vincenzo Lippolis -- Chapter XVI : a European citizenship without women?, Éliane Vogel-Polsky -- Part IV Citizenship and European democracy -- Chapter XVII : citizenship and democracy : elements for a theory of contemporary constitutional democracy, Gustavo Gozzi -- Chapter XVIII : citizenship beyond the national state? : the transnational citizenship of the European Union, Joseph Marko -- Chapter XIX : promises and resources - the developing practice of 'European' citizenship, Antje Wienver -- Chapter XX : supranational citizenship and democracy : normative and empirical dimensions, Carlos Closa -- Chapter XXI : citizenship, constitution, and the European Union, Massimo La Torre