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European Union citizenship: writing the future

European Union citizenship: writing the future
European Union citizenship: writing the future
EU citizenship has matured as an institution, owing to a number of important interventions by the European Court of Justice and legislative initiatives, such as the Citizenship Directive 2004/38/EC, which has recently entered into force. In this article, I critically examine minimalist and cosmopolitan conceptions of European citizenship and argue that once we dispense with the preoccupation of assigning primacy to a specific level of citizenship and establishing some kind of hierarchy among them, we can begin to address the questions and issues that really matter. Among these are the future governance of citizenship and the design of a more inclusive, multilayered and multicultural conception of citizenship. European citizenship entails a number of fruitful ideas for a more ambitious transition to a post-national tableau and can be the prototype for institutional experimentation on citizenship on a global scale.
1351-5993
623-646
Kostakopoulou, Dora
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Kostakopoulou, Dora
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Kostakopoulou, Dora (2007) European Union citizenship: writing the future. European Law Journal, 13 (5), 623-646. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0386.2007.00387.x).

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EU citizenship has matured as an institution, owing to a number of important interventions by the European Court of Justice and legislative initiatives, such as the Citizenship Directive 2004/38/EC, which has recently entered into force. In this article, I critically examine minimalist and cosmopolitan conceptions of European citizenship and argue that once we dispense with the preoccupation of assigning primacy to a specific level of citizenship and establishing some kind of hierarchy among them, we can begin to address the questions and issues that really matter. Among these are the future governance of citizenship and the design of a more inclusive, multilayered and multicultural conception of citizenship. European citizenship entails a number of fruitful ideas for a more ambitious transition to a post-national tableau and can be the prototype for institutional experimentation on citizenship on a global scale.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 6 August 2007
Published date: September 2007
Organisations: Southampton Law School

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Local EPrints ID: 200423
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/200423
ISSN: 1351-5993
PURE UUID: 56a2a6e0-a619-4b65-b4b3-346264682a91

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Author: Dora Kostakopoulou

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