CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Mustafovska, Rahiela |
|---|---|
| Title | European Union Citizenship: A new kind of citizenship or the extension of the national citizenship of the Member States? |
| Summary | Since its introduction, EU citizenship has been characterized as a tool for the creation of a European identity. Although EU citizenship as a source of rights and as an identity generating tool has gotten its appraisal in the theory, the issue of the practical enjoyment of those rights has not received much attention. Therefore, relying on a literature review and the partial use of documents analysis as a research method, the paper attempts to answer the question: how does the access and exercise of rights impact the creation of a European identity? The lack of attention to the application of the granted rights and the difficulties the citizens face in their implementation are the core findings of the paper. Furthermore, this drawback is pinpointed as a key reason for the slow development of a European identity. Finally, the paper establishes that the better citizens’ access to and exercise of the rights granted to them is, the faster the developemnt of a European identity will be. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/mustafovska_rahiela.pdf |
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