30 Years of EU Citizenship & Beyond

The 8th Edition of the ECIT Annual Conference is special because it marks the 30^th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty which created Union Citizenship. This is an opportunity for academics, civil society activists and policy makers to think about the meaning of European Citizenship, what it has achieved so far, where it is today and its future prospects. 

The Spanish Presidency will explain their original aims in proposing Union Citizenship. Policy makers and writers will explain the its history and assess its successes and failures. Working groups will put forward proposals for the future development of European Citizenship and the Statute. Together, we will imagine how this unique transnational citizenship could become more relevant to all Europeans:

1) What has changed in Europe since the more optimistic period of the Maastricht Treaty and a series of crises leading up to the Russian war on Ukraine?

2) Does the new situation in Europe strengthen the case for a more inclusive and outward-looking European Citizenship?  

3) Could Union Citizenship be developed with new rights- democratic, social, environmental or health rights — to become a citizenship more relevant for those that stay at home, and not just for mobile citizens? 

4) How to promote the ECIT project for a Statute on European Citizenship which has been supported by the European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe? Could this be the framework to bring what exists and new rights together for the next 30 years?

Register here for on-line or in-person (in Brussels) participation.