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 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...