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Abstract EU Citizenship Law articulates, explains, and analyses the legal framework and legal developments that have shaped the status of Union citizenship and the rights that it confers on Member State nationals. It examines how the rights and responsibilities produced by Union citizenship relate to other rights conferred by EU law, and other objectives pursued by the European Union, to expose the distinctive meaning and scope—the added legal value—of Union citizenship. It is a novel and complex legal status, conferred by and aiming to foster attachment to the European Union as a supranational polity, but only through holding the nationality of one of its constituent Member States. It is concerned mainly, though not exclusively, with the transnational dimensions of the citizen’s life, yet enforced (or hindered) primarily through the actions and decisions of national authorities, within parameters set and supervised by the Union’s institutions. Since its formal conception in the Maastricht Treaty, Union citizenship has catalysed an extraordinary, and ongoing, legal experiment, the processes and implications of which are traced throughout this book. But the legal story examined here sits in deeper and wider economic, political, social, and emotional contexts. Because Union citizenship is also an idea: a vector of European integration, collective personhood, and multi-layered identities that reflects the paradoxically inclusive and exclusive qualities of citizenship as a status more generally. It challenges us to consider the worth and deepen the protection of the person, and to shape a European Union where principles and values really matter.
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