European Citizenship in a Constitutional Context:
where the ‘social’ coexists with the ‘market’
where the ‘social’ coexists with the ‘market’
The EU Treaties award citizens of EU member states certain rights simply because of their nationality. Other rights depend on cross-border or economic activity. Thirty years on from the formal articulation of EU citizenship, Prof. Theodore Konstadinides assess two understandings of EU citizenship: the market and the social, traces their roots and reflects on whether this distinction is a useful one.
Theodore Konstadinides November 2022