Questioning EU Citizenship

Daniel Thym is Professor of European Law at the University of Konstanz.

• 1. Introduction: The Judicial Deconstruction of Union CitizenshipDaniel ThymPART I: RATIONALISING JUDICIAL CHANGE2. Extending Citizenship Rights and Losing it All: Brexit and the Perils of ‘Over-Constitutionalisation’ Susanne K Schmidt3. The Citizenship of Personal Circumstances in Europe Dimitry Kochenov4. (De)constructing the Road to Brexit: Paving the Way to Further Limitations on Free Movement and Equal Treatment? Stephanie Reynolds5. Why Did the Citizenship Jurisprudence Change?Urška Šadl and Suvi Sankari6. The Evolution of Citizens’ Rights in Light of the European Union’s Constitutional Development Daniel Thym7. The Engine of ‘Europeanness’? Free Movement, Social Transnationalism and European Identification Ettore Recchi8. European Citizenship and Transnational Rights: Chronicles of a Troubled Narrative Francesca StrumiaPART II: EQUAL TREATMENT, SOCIAL BENEFITS AND HUMAN RIGHTS9. Consolidating Union Citizenship: Residence and Solidarity Rights for Jobseekers and the Economically Inactive in the Post-Dano Era Ferdinand Wollenschläger10. Back to the Roots? No Access to Social Assistance for Union Citizens who are Economically Inactive Paul Minderhoud and Sandra Mantu11. Integrating Union Citizenship and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Niamh Nic ShuibhnePART III: THE CITIZENSHIP–IMMIGRATION NEXUS12. The Constitutional Status of Foreigners and European Union Citizens: Loopholes and Interactions in the Scope of Application of Fundamental Rights Sara Iglesias Sánchez13. The Integration Exception: A New Limit to Social Rights of Third-Country Nationals in European Union Law?KM (Karin) de Vries14. Membership without Naturalisation? The Limits of European Court of Human Rights Case Law on Residence Security and Equal Treatment Clíodhna Murphy15. Conclusion: The Non-Simultaneous Evolution of Citizens’ Rights Dora Kostakopoulou and Daniel Thym

[T]he volume is of consistent and high academic quality, and it is a must-have for every researcher interested in EU citizenship law and, beyond that, the challenges that European integration is facing today.