Aiming at outlining the essential framework of EU citizenship’s specificity in the context of the Overseas Countries and Territories associated with the Union (OCTs), this paper approaches the development of the legal status of EU citizenship as a process of the redefinition of the territorial...

This contribution embraces a purely utilitarian view of European Union law in suggesting a viable way to enlarge the horizon of opportunities of the holders of the so called “non-citizen” status in the Republic of Latvia, which is reserved for some ethnic minorities in that country and does...

Many believe that duties should be at the essence of citizenship. This paper dismisses this view, using EU law as the main context of analysis, by making five interrelated claims. (1) There are no empirically observable duties of EU citizenship; (2) such duties would lack any legal‐theoretical...

To provide a glimpse of the contemporary state of play in citizenship’s interaction with social solidarity in Europe, this contribution – following a brief introduction to citizenship’s arbitrary and exclusionary nature and the general dynamics in the development of the notion over the...

This special section of the European Papers (Vol 3, No. 3, 2018) focuses on the intersection of EU citizenship and federalism in Europe, approaching this intersection from an array of different perspectives. European Citizenship, although derived from the nationalities of the Member States, came...

This overview of the quality of European Union citizenship produced with a wider audience in mind discusses the recent trends in EU citizenship quality, contextualizes EU citizenship quality compared with other leading nationalities of the world and also sheds some light on the likely scenarios...

The current development of the EU citizenship concept is incompatible with some of the terms of enlargement, namely the policy of transition periods, outlined in the Act of Accession. While the ECJ has tried to interpret EU citizenship as a 'fundamental status', the 2003 Act of Accession...

Distributed Ledger Technology can be an effective tool for resource distribution. As individuals and organisations explore innovations which allow to redefine the rules of access, possession and sharing these developments also become important for the future of self-determination. Demonstrated...