EU Citizens - Thirty years on. An introduction

Mindus, Patricia Anna-Sara Lind | 2024

Nordisk Socialrättslig Tidskrift/Nordic Social Law Journal 38.2024

Patricia Mindus & Anna-Sara Lind (eds.)

Abstract

2023 marked thirty years since European Union citizenship was introduced as the Treaty of Maastricht entered into force. Celebrated as the world’s first “transnational legal status”, yet a complement to nationality, the status entails rights that have been expanded, modified, re-interpreted, against the background of the economic integration process. Criticisms against European Union citizenship frequently focus its exclusionary nature, often in relation to economic factors. This offers the springboard from which we started to reflect in pulling together this special issue.

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Nordisk Socialrättslig Tidskrift/Nordic Social Law Journal 38.2024

Patricia Mindus & Anna-Sara Lind (eds.)

Abstract

2023 marked thirty years since European Union citizenship was introduced as the Treaty of Maastricht entered into force. Celebrated as the world’s first “transnational legal status”, yet a complement to nationality, the status entails rights that have been expanded, modified, re-interpreted, against the background of the economic integration process. Criticisms against European Union citizenship frequently focus its exclusionary nature, often in relation to economic factors. This offers the springboard from which we started to reflect in pulling together this special issue.

Find the full introduction written by the editors here >

Find the full issue here >