TY - JOUR
T1 - Against Associate EU Citizenship
AU - van den Brink, Martijn
AU - Kochenov, Dimitry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - UK nationals will lose their EU citizenship status as a result of the Brexit referendum. To prevent this, several commentators, including the European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, proposed to grant associate EU citizenship to UK nationals to safeguard their rights as EU citizens after Brexit. We make the case against associate EU citizenship, dismissing it on three grounds. First, it violates the letter and the spirit of EU law. Second, it violates core EU values, including the EU's promise to respect the constitutional traditions of member states and the values of democracy and the rule of law. Third, it is against EU's interests, as associate EU citizenship fails to respect reciprocity in EU relations with third countries and undermines the coherence of the edifice of EU constitutionalism.
AB - UK nationals will lose their EU citizenship status as a result of the Brexit referendum. To prevent this, several commentators, including the European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, proposed to grant associate EU citizenship to UK nationals to safeguard their rights as EU citizens after Brexit. We make the case against associate EU citizenship, dismissing it on three grounds. First, it violates the letter and the spirit of EU law. Second, it violates core EU values, including the EU's promise to respect the constitutional traditions of member states and the values of democracy and the rule of law. Third, it is against EU's interests, as associate EU citizenship fails to respect reciprocity in EU relations with third countries and undermines the coherence of the edifice of EU constitutionalism.
KW - Brexit
KW - EU citizenship
KW - associate citizenship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069935400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jcms.12898
DO - 10.1111/jcms.12898
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069935400
SN - 0021-9886
VL - 57
SP - 1366
EP - 1382
JO - Journal of Common Market Studies
JF - Journal of Common Market Studies
IS - 6
ER -