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

Lyons, Carole

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"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.

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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

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