ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Theodora Kostakopoulou

Theodora Kostakopoulou is a member of the Scientific Committee of Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union and a Professor of European Union Law, European Integration and Public Policy at Warwick University.

POSTS BY Theodora Kostakopoulou

05 March 2019

EU Citizenship Enigma Variations, Mushrooming Historical Time and Emancipation

The Eurozenship debate has generated a wealth of ideas and [...] Continue reading >>

16 January 2019

Theodora Kostakopoulou

Who Should Be a Citizen of the Union? Toward an Autonomous European Union Citizenship

Refusing to believe that political constraints outweigh political possibilities in the present historical conjuncture, I argue that the time is ripe for the disentanglement of Eurozenship from Member State nationality. Since the mid-1990s I have defended this reform. But my argument for an autonomous Eurozenship in this debate unfolds in two steps which are presented in the subsequent two sections. In the first section, I explore the incremental disentanglement of EU citizenship from the nationality law of Member States, while in the second section I reconstruct Eurozenship, that is, I present the configuration of an autonomous EU citizenship law which can co-exist with EU citizenship cum Member State nationality. Continue reading >>