Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Stephen Hall -- Select Bibliography / Stephen Hall -- Preface / Stephen Hall -- Cases before the Court of Justice / Stephen Hall -- Cases before the Court of First Instance / Stephen Hall -- Cases before International Courts and Tribunals / Stephen Hall -- Cases before National Courts / Stephen Hall -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Stephen Hall -- Chapter 2 Nationality and Community Law / Stephen Hall -- Chapter 3 Nationality and Union Supervision / Stephen Hall -- Chapter 4 Material Scope of Citizenship Migration Rights / Stephen Hall -- Chapter 5 Direct Effect of Citizenship Migration Rights / Stephen Hall -- Back Matter -- Appendix / Stephen Hall -- Index / Stephen Hall.

One of the most striking changes contained in the Maastricht Treaty was the establishment of a de jure `citizenship of the Union'. For the first time since the Roman Empire, peoples of Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern Europe share a common legal citizenship status. The significance of this development is potentially profound, yet it is one of the least discussed aspects of the Maastricht Treaty. In this book Stephen Hall examines the legal implications of establishing a European citizenship. He shows that Community law has never given unqualified effect to the Member States' dispositions of their nationalities, and that the Member States have had their sovereign power to confer and withdraw their nationalities qualified by the Maastricht Treaty. The book goes on to discuss the implications of Union citizenship on Community migration rights, demonstrating that the new non-economic migration rights for Union citizens are directly effective but that they are subject to a range of important limitations and conditions. Among these conditions is a residual constitutional power, contingently retained by the Member States to derogate from Community rights on the grounds of national or public security.

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