This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship – the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others – and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration. The focus of the book is distinctly citizen focused.

Introduction Michael Dougan, Niamh Nic Shuibhne and Eleanor Spaventa Part I The Reconfiguration of Space1 The Transnational Character of Union Citizenship Anastasia Iliopoulou Penot2 The Past, Present and Future of the Purely Internal Rule in EU Law Síofra O'Leary3 A Stage, a Spotlight and an Unwritten Script: Frontier Zones and Intersectional Citizens Charlotte O'Brien Part II In the Name of the Citizen?4 The Role Of Judge-made Law and EU Supranational Government: A Bumpy Road from Secrecy to Translucence Deirdre Curtin5 Democratic Adjudication in Europe – How Can the European Court of Justice be Responsive to the Citizens? Bruno de Witte6 A Very Cosmopolitan Citizenship: But Who Pays the Price? Michelle EversonPart III The Citizen's Policy Agenda?7 Europe in Times of Economic Crisis: Bringing Europe's Citizens Closer to One Another? Fabian Amtenbrink8 Can the EU Deliver on Citizen Expectations in the Fight against Climate Change? Joanne Scott9 Is the Citizen driving the EU's Criminal Law Agenda? Ester Herlin-Karnell10 For Better, For Worse: The Relationship between EU Citizenship and the Development of Cross-border Family Law Helen StalfordPart IV New Modes of Citizenship Participation11 How Could the New Article 11 TEU Contribute to Reduce the EU's Democratic Malaise? Luis Bouza García12 The European Citizens' Initiative: A New Institution for Empowering Europe's Citizens? Graham Smith13 The Legislative Initiative: A Comparative Analysis of the Domestic Experiences in EU Countries Matt Qvortrup

This collection of essays engages with the central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship - the emancipation of certain citizens and the alienation of others.The essays seek to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration.The book construes 'EU Citizenship' in its broadest sense, and explores the extent to which the European citizen is, or indeed is not genuinely at the heart of EU law and policy-making.

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