The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?

ABSTRACT

EU citizenship’s long-lasting dependency on worker rights has been scrutinised by the literature since the introduction of the status. Three new volumes deal with the intertwined evolution between the two in the longue durée, all by applying the stress tests of our times: Brexit and Euroscepticism. In a complementary way, both nuts and bolts and fissures of EU citizenship emerge and portray a novel citizenship that caters to the mobile, bypassing the sedentariness of national citizenship, but still lacks in the protection of the non-mobile and economically inactive. In the future, the literature could benefit from a closer connection to EU integration theories as well as from a more attentive look at how Brexit is the perfect exposer of both strengths and weaknesses of EU citizenship.

KEYWORDS:

• EU Citizenship
• worker rights
• market citizenship
• residence rights
• Brexit

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