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Civil Rights and EU Citizenship: Challenges at the Crossroads of the European, National and Private Sphere

Civil Rights and EU Citizenship: Challenges at the Crossroads of the European, National and Private Sphere

Author: Sybe de Vries; Henri de Waele; Marie-Pierre Granger
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788113434
Published In: October 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The process of European integration has had a marked influence on the nature and meaning of citizenship in national and post-national contexts as well as on the definition and exercise of civil rights across Member States. This original edited collection brings together insights from EU law, human rights and comparative constitutional law to address this underexplored nexus.

Split into two distinct thematic parts, it first evaluates relevant frameworks of civil rights protection, with special attention on enforcement mechanisms and the role of civil society organisations. Next, it engages extensively with a series of individual rights connected to EU citizenship. Comprising detailed studies on access to nationality, the right to free movement, non-discrimination, family life, data protection and the freedom of expression, this book maps the expanding role of European law in the national sphere. It identifies a number of challenges to core civil rights that the current supranational framework is at pains to address. The contributors suggest and develop several new ideas on how to take the EU integration project forward.

Civil Rights and EU Citizenship provides an innovative perspective on both the conceptual dimensions and the actual realities of rights-based citizenship which will be of interest to legal scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike.

Preface

EU citizenship and civil rights: an underexplored nexus

Henri de Waele and Marie-Pierre Granger

PART I FRAMEWORKS

2. Post-Lisbon civil rights protection by the EU’s political institutions

John Morijn

3. Securing private actors’ respect for civil rights within the EU: actual and potential horizontal effects of instruments

Sybe de Vries

4. The role of civil society organisations

Javier A. González Vega

PART II RIGHTS

5. Nationality and EU citizenship: strong tether or slipping anchor?

Hanneke van Eijken and Pauline Phoa

6. EU citizenship and EU anti-discrimination law: barriers to the enjoyment of the right to non-discrimination resulting from the legal anti-discrimination framework

Tomasz Dudek

7. The civil right to free movement: the beating heart of European Union citizenship?

Marie-Pierre Granger

8. The right to family life and obstacles arising from intra-European mobility

Pilar Jiménez Blanco and Ángel Espiniella Menéndez

9. Pursuing Union citizenship rights: access to justice

Silvia Adamo

10. Citizen journalism: potentials and pitfalls for European Union citizenship

Orsolya Salát

11. The right to protection of personal data: the new posterchild of European Union citizenship?

Marie-Pierre Granger and Kristina Irion

12. Epilogue: towards a European civil rights mo(ve)ment?