Abstract
‘Will I still be British?’ was the pensioner’s concerned complaint to her local Euro-MP about the passing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. She was only reluctantly reassured that nothing in the Treaty on European Union directly affected her rights as a British citizen. In fact, what the Treaty does, by virtue of Article 8, is to add to her rights as a British national by making her a citizen of the European Union. The Treaty on European Union states:
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Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union [Article 8(1)].
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Citizens of the Union shall enjoy the rights conferred by this Treaty and shall be subject to the duties imposed thereby [Article 8(2)] (Treaty on European Union, 1992).
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Hoon, G. (1996). Towards European Citizenship. In: Demaine, J., Entwistle, H. (eds) Beyond Communitarianism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25207-7_9
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