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Originally Posted by toph3r
No. They don't. EU 'citizenship' is nothing more than a political gesture rather than the serious offering of nationality to a person.
EU citizenship exists and does come with rights of its own that are not all the same as those granted to citizens of a given EU member state by said EU member state to its own citizens. International treaties/agreements (multilateral and bilateral), laws, other legal agreements, regulations and even court rulings have shown that EU citizenship is a serious offering of citizenship to a person, even as such citizenship is only available to those who also hold citizenship of an EU member state.
Citizenship of every country is "a political gesture" and it's a serious offering of citizenship in the case of EU citizens. EU citizens exist, and not every national of an EU member state is an EU citizen -- much akin to how not all US nationals are US citizens.
Jul 2, 2017, 12:49 am