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Work package 7. European Court of Justice and enacting citizenship
While the status European citizen remains within the nationality laws of Member States, for those considered as long-term resident third country nationals the linking factor is, however, the length of residence. The Council Directive 2003/109/EC of November 2003 has officially recognized and covered the legal status of those non-EU nationals having resided for a long period of time in the territory of a Member State. This work package addresses this tension and the vulnerabilities inherent to the differentiation emanating from using ‘nationality’ or ‘residence’ as the linking factors determining and giving access to acts of citizenship in the European Union.
News
Berlin maintains restrictions on workers from eastern Europe
Germany is to maintain restrictions on access to the country for workers from eastern European EU member states until 2011 due to worries that those willing to work for less than native-born employees would drive up local unemployment. (EU Observer, LEIGH PHILLIPS, 17.07.2008)Read more >
Refusal of French nationality for assimilation default
Highest French administrative court refuses French nationality to a woman on the grounds she wears a burqa. Read The Guardian account here.Read more >
WP1: Countdown to the Launch of ENACT Website
The ENACT website, which is designed with Web 2.0 technologies, will become operational on 19 April.Read more >
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Citizenship of the Union (Vatsouras Koupatantze), Judgment, Joint cases C-22/08, C-23/08
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Sozialgericht Nürnberg – Legality of Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38(…) – Interpretation of Article 12 EC and Article 39 ECRead more >
Problems and perspectives of the European Citizenship
Problems and perspectives of the European Citizenship : On the 5th report on Citizenship of the Union. Briefing paper prepared by Dora Kostakopoulou for the European ParliamentRead more >
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The project ENACT is a ‘Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities’ Programme with the call FP7-SSH-2007-1 by the European Commission.