ࡱ> 9;8  bjbj 7" AAAAAUUUUi Uu6888888$QR\A\AAqAA66z]U@"0A0\\ : passport to citizenship Baron Frankal The first words on new europes passport are European Union. That is decidedly odd. In most places, passports, the primary embodiment of nationality, start with the name of the country. Few hungarians may realise it yet, but they are all now dual citizens thanks to the Maastricht Treatys bold assertion that Citizenship of the union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Britons all now enjoy the right to move freely to, and reside in, 26 other countries, to vote and stand as candidates in local elections there, and to use these other countries diplomatic services abroad where there is no Hungarian embassy. The French ambassador in Lebanon is thrilled. If the new constitutional treaty is ever ratified, we will go further, building on the proactive work of the European Court of Justice to infuse the whole Treaty with a sense of European citizenship from the very first sentence. This provides an excellent illustration of the EUs way of working, namely that unlike normal societies which slowly evolve concepts and finally carve them in law, the EU first creates a legal basis, and then tries to build something on it. Although the Treatys wording is an inevitable compromise and is understood by different parties to be different things, essentially there are two options: the EU as either melting pot or salad bowl. Young states are traditionally melting pots everyone who comes is expected to assimilate: to add what they have to the cauldron by throwing themselves in and melting into the existing stew. France still tries to stir such a pot, the recent headscarf ban being a good illustration of a culture that defines itself on a common language, history and culture that outsiders cannot easily join. French identity rests on classic notions of primordial attachment to a common kith and kin group that has a natural instinct of accepting familial rights and obligations. Europe could develop in the same way. The bland illustrative architecture on euro notes shows that although there is no common language, an attempt can be made to identify common european values and heritage, of humanism, renaissance, enlightenment, democracy and shared culture. In this way, it is argued, citizens can feel more a part of Europe, not merely enjoying privileges that other countries give them, but coming to view Europe as a common space, whose origins and philosophy they identify with and whose cultures, although diverse, are familiar. This though is an anachronistic europe that echoes the patriotism of the nation, with all the exclusion that nationalism inevitably brings. Also, this vision is ultimately impossible to reconcile with the continuance of the member states themselves as independent countries. If no melting pot then, a salad bowl. In its very construction you qualify by virtue of being a member state national EU citizenship is something that complements the nation state but does not replace it: indeed, the Amsterdam Treaty added these very words. Rather than having a preordained set of ideas, values or philosophies, the EU is a grand forum where different nationalities, cultures and creeds keep their own identities, but mix themselves up, exercising their treaty-given rights to go where they want and do what they want, carried along by the tides of a single market that redistributes labour, skills and capital where it can be most efficiently used for the good of all. That EU citizenship doesnt impinge on nationality is clearly illustrated by the fact that EU rights typically dont work in your own member state. On countless occasions the Court has granted individuals their rights against governments - but almost always other governments. In one famous case a Spanish woman, resident and unemployed in Germany, won her case to claim a child benefit that she wouldnt have got in her own country. Whatever some may try to make of it therefore, EU citizenship should not be seen in classic terms of belonging to a common cultual group. Instead it is hard-nosed set of portable legal and economic rights that citizens of one member state may use to live and work in another. Europeans should fear these rights less and use them more. 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