At the moment, EU citizens aren’t actually citizens of the EU as an entity, but citizens of a member state of the EU, and your EU citizens’ rights flow from that. Having a passport that only mentions the EU on the cover, and gives your actual nationality on the information page as a detail alongside your place of birth and distinguishing marks, would be weird to say the least in these circumstances.
Actually establishing personal EU citizenship, so that your relationship is with the EU and your nation-state citizenship gets demoted to a secondary tier like which municipality you’re registered in, would make this make a lot more sense, but is a far more sweeping change, akin to Volt’s “United States of Europe” proposals, and is not going to come about from a petition.
While I can in general agree with you, European citizenship is very much a thing. Any citizen of any country of the European Union is a European Union citizen.
Citizenship does exist and grants a few rights to the holder.
Even without Schengen a European citizen has the right to travel and move to any other European country, the right to vote in European elections and a little more.
At the moment, EU citizens aren’t actually citizens of the EU as an entity, but citizens of a member state of the EU, and your EU citizens’ rights flow from that. Having a passport that only mentions the EU on the cover, and gives your actual nationality on the information page as a detail alongside your place of birth and distinguishing marks, would be weird to say the least in these circumstances.
Actually establishing personal EU citizenship, so that your relationship is with the EU and your nation-state citizenship gets demoted to a secondary tier like which municipality you’re registered in, would make this make a lot more sense, but is a far more sweeping change, akin to Volt’s “United States of Europe” proposals, and is not going to come about from a petition.
While I can in general agree with you, European citizenship is very much a thing. Any citizen of any country of the European Union is a European Union citizen.
Citizenship does exist and grants a few rights to the holder.
Even without Schengen a European citizen has the right to travel and move to any other European country, the right to vote in European elections and a little more.
It’s not much, but it sure is a thing.