Balancing the rights and duties of European and national citizens: A democratic approach

Journal article

Abstract:: How should we conceive of the relationship between European citizenship and national citizenship from a normative perspective? While the Treaties assert the supplementary nature of European citizenship vis-à-vis national citizenship, advocates of trans- and supra-national citizenship perspectives have agreed with the European Court of Justice that Union citizenship will ultimately supplant or subsume national citizenship. By contrast, we draw upon demoicratic and stakeholder citizenship theories to defend the primacy of national over European citizenship. Taking the cases of political and welfare rights, we argue that member states may have special duties to second-country nationals stemming from a European social contract, but that these duties must be balanced against the rights and duties of national citizens stemming from the national social contract.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: political rights

stakeholder citizenship

EU citizenship

welfare rights

universal basic income

Democracy
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Deposit date:: 2018-02-23
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Copyright holder:: Informa UK
Notes:: This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1488885

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