A voyage around article 8: an historical and comparative evaluation of the fate of European Union citizenship.

Lyons, Carole

Abstract

"Citizenship of the Union is hereby established" - easily done, this miraculous invention of EU citizenship. And so? Not a lot happened in fact. But rather than dwell on the disappointments inherent in Article 8 EC, this article is about the state of citizenship in the European Union in 1998 and what it could, as a dynamic concept, imaginatively interpreted, evolve into. It would have been a nice bonus to have been able to embellish the arguments below with some new Treaty changes introduced at the Amsterdam Intergovernmental Conference, but the changes were few and Article 8 EC remains substantively unchanged. In introducing that Article into the EC Treaty, the Maastricht Intergovernmental Conference begat a kind of "textual" citizenship of the European Union, the reality of which could neither be denied nor, however, precisely located.

Citation

LYONS, C. 1997. A voyage around article 8: an historical and comparative evaluation of the fate of European Union citizenship. Yearbook of European law [online], 17(1), pages 135-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/17.1.135

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 31, 1997
• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 1997
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 1997
• Deposit Date: Jul 18, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2023
• Journal: Yearbook of European law
• Print ISSN: 0263-3264
• Electronic ISSN: 2045-0044
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 135-163
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/17.1.135
• Keywords: European Union; Citizenship; Constitutional law
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1740037