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4 - The Citizen Is Born – Literal Utterances to the Citizen Prior to 1992

from Part II - The Crumbling Pillars of the Temple

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2022

Martin Steinfeld
Martin Steinfeld
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University of Cambridge
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Citizenship is clearly considered to be integral to free movement of persons law within the European Union, but yet it technically did not legally exist until 1992. This chapter asserts that mere utterances of the phrase prior to the Citizen’s legal creation are not only worthy of analysis in their own right but that such utterances provided one of at least two vital discursive pillars upon which to situate the ‘roof’ of citizenship when it eventually emerged. This book began by examining in effect two key moments in the development of Community (now Union) law. First, as has been repeatedly mentioned, there was clearly significance in the formal inclusion of Union Citizenship into the Treaty on European Union (TEU) at Maastricht, even if it was initially dismissed as a merely symbolic plaything.

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Fissures in EU Citizenship
The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Legal Evolution of EU Citizenship
 , pp. 203 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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