Obywatelstwo Unii Europejskiej

This article deals with the issue of European Union citizenship. Since 1992, both the Treaties and the case law of the Court of Justice have helped to create a direct and evolving bond of citizenship between the individual and the Union. Any person who holds the nationality of an EU member state is automatically also an EU citizen. EU citizenship is additional to and does not replace national citizenship. Moreover, European citizenship is evolving not only as a direct bond between the citizen and the Union but also as a sphere of relationships between the citizen and all the member states. That aspect of citizenship guarantees all the nationals the right to move freely throughout the territory of the Union, as well as the right to reside in any member state.