This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union follows an institutionalist approach and traces the development of citizenship discourse from the founding treaties of the EU to the most recent effort of constitution-making and the Lisbon Treaty. This helps demonstrate that such discourse has followed a path based on the foundational principles of free movement and non-discrimination rather than revolutionary ideas of a postnational citizenship beyond the nation-state. This in-depth analysis of citizenship in the EU takes into account the institutional configuration of membership, rights, identity, and participation. It also brings in the domestic level of the debate through the examination of national positions on reform proposals and the interplay between EU and member states conceptions of citizenship. Lastly, by investigating citizenship practices, the book helps foster understanding of how the EU works as a political system, and the relationship between European institutions and the recipients of their integrative politics , i.e., the citizens.

This book examines Norway’s affiliation to the EU, and systematically assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK as a viable EU affiliation post-Brexit. Furthermore, it asks how much autonomy, and room of maneuver, do tightly integrated non-member states have under this arrangement. As such it also provides an assessment of what it would mean for the UK of adopting the Norway model. The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) leaves considerable uncertainty. It contains transitory elements, there will be implementation reviews, and there may be many more bilateral and multilateral agreements before the trade relationship is fully defined. The situates these analyses within the framework of the broader European context. What does the in-depth assessment of Norway’s close EU affiliation tell us about the post-Brexit European political order, and what does the Norway model still offer to the UK as its new relationship with the EU develops over time. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, Norwegian politics, British politics, European integration and more broadly to European studies and international relations.

This book examines Norway’s affiliation to the EU, and systematically assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK as a viable EU affiliation post-Brexit. Furthermore, it asks how much autonomy, and room of maneuver, do tightly integrated non-member states have under this arrangement. As such it also provides an assessment of what it would mean for the UK of adopting the Norway model. The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) leaves considerable uncertainty. It contains transitory elements, there will be implementation reviews, and there may be many more bilateral and multilateral agreements before the trade relationship is fully defined. The situates these analyses within the framework of the broader European context. What does the in-depth assessment of Norway’s close EU affiliation tell us about the post-Brexit European political order, and what does the Norway model still offer to the UK as its new relationship with the EU develops over time. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, Norwegian politics, British politics, European integration and more broadly to European studies and international relations.

This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of political, social and economic practice. In particular, they show the extent to which the elimination of formal internal borders within Europe has come hand in glove with the emergence of new socio-economic boundaries and the hardening of external borders. The book concludes with a number of concrete proposals to forge a genuinely post-national form of membership.

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union follows an institutionalist approach and traces the development of citizenship discourse from the founding treaties of the EU to the most recent effort of constitution-making and the Lisbon Treaty. This helps demonstrate that such discourse has followed a path based on the foundational principles of free movement and non-discrimination rather than revolutionary ideas of a postnational citizenship beyond the nation-state. This in-depth analysis of citizenship in the EU takes into account the institutional configuration of membership, rights, identity, and participation. It also brings in the domestic level of the debate through the examination of national positions on reform proposals and the interplay between EU and member states conceptions of citizenship. Lastly, by investigating citizenship practices, the book helps foster understanding of how the EU works as a political system, and the relationship between European institutions and the recipients of their integrative politics , i.e., the citizens.