Exploring a key aspect of European integration, this clear and
thoughtful book considers the remarkable experiment with common
rights and citizenship in the EU. Governments around the world
traditionally distinguish insiders (citizens) from outsiders
(foreigners). Yet over the past half-century, an extensive set of
supranational rights has been created in Europe that removes member
governments' authority to privilege their own citizens, a hallmark
of sovereignty. The culmination of supranational rights, European
citizenship not only provides individuals with choices about where
to live and work but also forces governments to respect those
choices. Explaining this innovation why states cede their
sovereignty and eradicate or redefine the boundaries of the
political community by including "foreigners" Willem Maas analyzes
the development of European citizenship within the larger context
of the evolution of rights. Imagining more than simply a free trade
market, the goal of building a "broader and deeper community among
peoples" with a "destiny henceforward shared" creating European
citizens has informed European integration since its origins. The
author argues that its success or failure will not only determine
the future of Europe but will also provide lessons for political
integration elsewhere."
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