European citizenship: an institutional challenge
"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...
| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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The Hague
1998
Kluwer Law International |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19111720124919399029-european-citizenship-an-instit.htm |
| Summary: | "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." |
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| Physical Description: | 476 p. Paper |