From the Introduction. The relationship between European citizenship and national citizenship is a sweetsour
one. If European citizenship is ‘destined to be the fundamental status of the
nationals of the Member States’,3 and despite the consistent (?) efforts of the Court
of Justice of the EU (CJEU, the Court) to give it autonomous status in relation to any
other EU or national concept, it nonetheless relies heavily upon national citizenship.
Normatively, the former depends on the latter, given that there is no autonomou
