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  Frozen: Citizenship and European unification
 
 
Title: Frozen: Citizenship and European unification
Author: Warleigh, Alex
Appeared in: Critical review of international social and political philosophy
Paging: Volume 1 (1998) nr. 4 pages 113-151
Year: 1998
Contents: Citizenship issues are in the vanguard of the democratization process of the European Union. As a result, much academic debate has centred on the significance, worth, and potential of the status of European Union citizen bestowed on all member state nationals by the Maastricht Treaty. This article traces the growing debate on 'European' citizenship in the form of a literature review. It places the debate in the context of the EU's own evolution and argues that citizenship, whether broadly or narrowly conceived, is currently in a frozen condition, since it was one of the major issues whose discussion was postponed by the member governments at the Amsterdam summit of 1997. Nonetheless, the creation of the status of EU citizen has unleashed expectations of greater inclusivity in decision making which the EU cannot afford to ignore if the democratization process is to continue. The likely result is an experiment in post-national citizenship based on a multilevel Europolity and the separation of ethnic and political memberships.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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