Against Associate EU Citizenship

Martijn van den Brink, Dimitry Kochenov

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1366-1382
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Common Market Studies
Volume57
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Brexit
  • EU citizenship
  • associate citizenship

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