Debating European citizenship / Rainer Bauböck, editor

EU citizenship: Still a Fundamental Status? -- Part I:: Should EU Citizens Living in Other Member States Vote There in National Elections? -- EU-Citizens Should Have the Right to Vote in National Elections -- EU Citizens Should Have Voting Rights in National Elections, But in Which Country? -- A European or a National Solution to the Democratic Deficit? -- EU Accession to the ECHR Requires Ensuring the Franchise for EU Citizens in National Elections -- How to Enfranchise Second Country Nationals? Test the Options for Best Fit, Easiest Adoption and Lowest Costs -- What’s in a People? Social Facts, Individual Choice, and the European Union -- Testing the Bonds of Solidarity in Europe’s Common Citizenship Area -- ‘An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe’: Union Citizenship, Democracy, Rights and the Enfranchisement of Second Country Nationals -- Five Pragmatic Reasons for a Dialogue with and Between Member States on Free Movement and Voting Rights -- Don’t Start with Europeans First. An Initiative for Extending Voting Rights Should also Promote Access to Citizenship for Third Country Nationals -- Voting Rights and Beyond… -- One Cannot Promote Free Movement of EU Citizens and Restrict Their Political Participation --Second Country EU Citizens Voting in National Elections Is an Important Step, but Other Steps Should Be Taken First -- A More Comprehensive Reform Is Needed to Ensure That Mobile Citizens Can Vote -- Incremental Changes Are not Enough – Voting Rights Are a Matter of Democratic Principle -- Mobile Union Citizens Should Have Portable Voting Rights Within the EU -- Political rights for mobile Union citizens -- Concluding Remarks: Righting Democratic Wrongs -- Part II:: Freedom of Movement Under Attack: Is it Worth Defending as the Core of EU Citizenship? -- Freedom of Movement Needs to Be Defended as the Core of EU Citizenship -- Free movement as emancipation -- Free movement as a recalibration of justice and democracy -- Free movement as separating ‘the nation’ from ‘the state’ -- Free Movement as a Means of Subject-Formation: Defending a More Relational Approach to EU Citizenship -- Free Movement Emancipates, but What Freedom Is This? -- Free Movement and EU Citizenship from the Perspective of Intra-European Mobility -- Reading Too Much and Too Little into the Matter? Latent Limits and Potentials of EU Freedom of Movement -- Part III:: Should EU Citizenship Be Duty-Free? -- EU Citizenship Needs a Stronger Social Dimension and Soft Duties -- Building Social Europe Requires Challenging the Judicialisation of Citizenship -- EU Citizenship Should Speak Both to the Mobile and the Non-Mobile European -- Balancing the Rights of European Citizenship with Duties Towards National Citizens: An Inter-National Perspective -- Social Citizenship, Democratic Values and European Integration: A Rejoinder

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate