We Are European Citizens, Are We Not? Keys to a Real Citizenship
We Are European Citizens, Are We Not? Keys to a Real Citizenship

Summary/Abstract: For the European Union (EU), increasingly questioned by its inhabitants, the issue of citizenship is becoming more and more prominent. Citizenship is what united the inhabitants of a city in antiquity or what continues to unite them in a modern nation today by defining rights and duties of citizens. In this particularly delicate situation of re-emergence of populism in the EU, should we not finally try to understand whether the notion of citizenship does not cover other cultural, territorial and socio-economic dimensions than those commonly accepted? In this sense, since Europe precedes the EU, this article proposes to revisit Europe in the light of its history, its common cultural heritage and its modes of consumption in order to explore other ways of European unification apparently abandoned by European elites, thus it providing the keys to effective citizenship.

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