Italian citizenship under evolution and European Union citizenship under stress

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to subject European Union citizenship to a critical review, over thirty years after its legislative provision through the Maastricht Treaty. The objective is to ascer-tain, as the European processe evolves, its possible expansive potential and (also) its degree of permea-bility with respect to the evolutionary dynamics that have affected and continue to affect the (coexisting) national citizenship.What, then, may be the new “borders” of a national citizenship that is permanently under evolu-tion, and what are the ones of a European citizenship, that, having long since become much more than a market citizenship, appears to be “under stress”?