Against associate EU citizenship

van den Brink, Martijn; Kochenov, Dimitry

doi:10.1111/jcms.12898

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Against associate EU citizenship

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van den Brink, Martijn
Ethics, Law and Politics, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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van den Brink, M., & Kochenov, D. (2019). Against associate EU citizenship. Journal of common market studies, 57(6), 1366-1382. doi:10.1111/jcms.12898.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5BEC-C

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UK nationals will lose their EU citizenship status as a result of the Brexit referendum. To prevent this, several commentators, including the European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, proposed to grant associate EU citizenship to UK nationals to safeguard their rights as EU citizens after Brexit. We make the case against associate EU citizenship, dismissing it on three grounds. First, it violates the letter and the spirit of EU law. Second, it violates core EU values, including the EU's promise to respect the constitutional traditions of member states and the values of democracy and the rule of law. Third, it is against EU's interests, as associate EU citizenship fails to respect reciprocity in EU relations with third countries and undermines the coherence of the edifice of EU constitutionalism.