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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.
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 >>