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 article addresses the promotion of democracy in the enlargement process of the Central and Eastern European countries. We start by outlining EU democracy promotion during accession, with a particular focus on political conditionality. In a subsequent part we argue that the European...

This brief contribution uses a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in the case of Janko Rottmann (C-138/08 [2010] ECR I-0000) as a pretext to look at the likely development of the citizenship of the European Union (EU) in the near future and, particularly, at the...

This paper showcases the weaknesses of EU enlargement law and demonstrates how one Member State is notable for abusing this weakness, harming the candidate countries, the EU and the institutions alike, stripping EU position of predictability and undermining EU Commission’s efforts, thus...

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...

We demonstrate that the CJEU’s Achmea judgment has resulted in significantly more damage beyond the termination of intra-EU BITs. It made the application of EU law impossible. Indeed, it has opened the floodgate to deficient judicial protection in the face of structural backsliding of the rule...

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...