Questions about citizenship are at the centre of academic as well as political controversies. EUDO CITIZENSHIP wants to encourage open debates based on evidence and knowledge, and conducted in a spirit of mutual respect.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP offers two online platforms where researchers, policy-makers and NGOs can submit comments:

Our Citizenship Forum invites comments written specifically for the EUDO CITIZENSHIP website on a specific question of general and long-term interest.

Our aim is to promote lively controversies about research hypotheses and findings as well as about proposals for policy reform.

Our Video Comments page collects short video statements on current citizenship news and documents presentations at EUDO CITIZENSHIP events.

We invite video comments in English on topics covered by EUDO CITIZENSHIP. Comments should be as short as possible (no more than 10 minutes).

They must be well-informed but free of technical language and academic jargon. Comments should be to the point and aim to stimulate debates but must never be offensive or insulting.

We do not provide for direct posting of comments. If you want to contribute a video comment, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it including your affiliation and a brief statement what your comment will be about. We will then send you technical instructions.

Video Comments series

Comments on electoral rights and vote of non-residents (EUDO Dissemination Conference on Inclusive Democracy in Europe)

External Voting: European Trends and Democratic Concerns, Rainer Bauböck, EUI

 

 

External Voting: the Difference that the EU Makes, David Owen , University of Southampton

 

External Voting: Emergent Standards and Practices in the OSCE Region, Jeremy Grace , SUNY Geneseo

How and Why Do Non-Citizen Voting Rights Matter in the EU? Jo Shaw , University of Edinburgh

 

Seizing Opportunities – Becoming an Active Citizen, Jan Niessen , Migration Policy Group

Electoral Rights for Non-Citizen Residents in Ireland: Reflections on the 2004 and 2009 Local Elections and Beyond, Fidele Mutwarasibo , Immigrant Council of Ireland

Political Participation of EU Immigrants, Mark Franklin, EUI

The Migrant Voter. How the Internet Creates a New Electorate, Alexander H. Trechsel, EUI

Electoral participation of citizen immigrants in European Union countries, Stéfanie André, Tilburg University

Comments on Citizenship in Europe and the ECJ judgment in the Rottmann, Zambrano and McCarthy cases

Dimitry Kochenov talks at University College London on A Real European Citizenship: the ECJ Opening a New Chapter in the Development of the Union in Europe. This talk is based on an article on the recent developments in EU citizenship law forthcoming in Columbia Journal of European Law (Vol. 18, Issue 1, Fall 2011).

Comments on Citizenship in Europe (Conference held at University of Rome III)

Rainer Bauböck talks on Multilayered Citizenship in the EU at the conference Giornate per l'Europa-Cittadinanza dell'Unione: un puzzle da comporre, Faculty of Political Science, University of Rome III, 11-13 May 2011

Virginie Guiraudon talks on National and European Citizenship still bound at the hip? at the conference Giornate per l'Europa-Cittadinanza dell'Unione: un puzzle da comporre, Faculty of Political Science, University of Rome III, 11-13 May 2011

Dimitry Kochenov talks on Tensions between Member States' nationality and European Citizenship at the conference Giornate per l'Europa-Cittadinanza dell'Unione: un puzzle da comporre, Faculty of Political Science, University of Rome III, 11-13 May 2011

Comments on the ECJ judgment in the Zambrano case

On 8 March 2011 the European Court of Justice decided that third country national parents of a child who is an EU citizen have a right to residence and access to employment in the country of which the child is a national. The judgment expands the scope of rights derived from EU citizenship to situations that were previously considered to be internal to member states and regulated by their national laws. It also challenges so-called reverse discrimination of EU citizens who reside in their country of citizenship and have not made use of their free movement rights.

Links to the full text of the judgment and the opinion of the Attorney General

Read a summary of the case by Rainer Bauböck

Read an analysis of implications of the judgment by Anja Wiesbrock and a comment by Loïc Azoulai

Read our CITIZENSHIP FORUM debate on the earlier judgment in the Rottmann case

The Zambrano Case: towards a "Family Citizenship"?

by Keiva Carr (EUI)

Johanna Croon comments on the Zambrano Case

Alice Margaria comments on the Zambrano Case

Future Impact of Zambrano

by Stephen Coutts (EUI)

EUDO Citizenship Video presentations