EU citizenship derives from and remains subordinate to national citizenship
Evidence
A sentence stating that EU citizenship completes national citizenship and does not replace it was added to Article 8.1. Clearly, this reinforces the approach of the Treaty of Maastricht, according to which EU citizenship is derived from national citizenship of one of the Member States. Consequently, this change closes the door for the time being to the granting of EU citizenship to third country nationals residing in the territory of the EU. The legal distinction between EU citizens and non-EU citizens is emphasized and this certainly harms the status of the latter. In that sense, this change can be interpreted as a setback since it emphasizes the link between EU citizenship and national citizenship, between citizenship and nationality, whereas EU citizenship was often presented as an attempt to break this link: more than ever the first condition to be recognized as a EU citizen is to be a national citizen of one of the member states. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 839
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the precise legal relation between EU citizenship and member-state nationality against the ideal of supranational citizenship.
- XREF: connects to: EU citizenship remains dependent on national membership; The Amsterdam Treaty explicitly subordinated EU citizenship to national citizenship; EU citizenship legally extends rights beyond the nation-state (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- EU citizenship remains dependent on national membership
#corroborates(1.00) - The Amsterdam Treaty explicitly subordinated EU citizenship to national citizenship
#corroborates(0.95) - EU citizenship legally extends rights beyond the nation-state
#qualifies(0.80) - The Maastricht Treaty first gave EU citizenship a juridical basis
#expands(0.80) - Citizenship is evolving toward multiple simultaneous levels beyond the nation-state
#complicates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 845 - Citizenship is decoupling from nation-state boundaries under globalization
#complicates(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 835