(124) National citizenship as a paradigm for the interpretation of the relationship between the citizen and the individual non-citizen in the political community envisages that citizen rights overlap human rights. In Europe, the possibility of overcoming a national citizenship system is brought forward by the introduction of European citizenship, whose body is difficult to determine, since it depends on how Europe and the European Union are defined. In addition to this, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 defined the EU citizen as every individual possessing the nationality of a Member State. EU citizenship thus complements national citizenship and does not replace it. Therefore, the legal function of national citizenship remained unchanged. In this way, instead of exceeding the limits of national citizenship, the European Union created a new discrimination.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:33:22 +0000
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