| Title |
European Union citizenship. Problematic aspects / |
| Translation of Title |
Europos Sąjungos pilietybė. Probleminiai aspektai. |
| Authors |
Škimelytė, Ieva |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
78 |
| Keywords [eng] |
EU citizenship ; family reunification ; family rights |
| Abstract [eng] |
This master thesis analyzes the status of European Union citizenship and the substance of the rights conferred to every European Union citizen under Article 20 TFEU. The growing tendency of CJEU’s competence extention into purely internal situations is explored by analyzing citizenship case law since the Maastricht Treaty until nowadays. For the comprehensive analysis of Article 20 TFEU application, the case law in family reunification is chosen in this research work. Not by the accident the recent CJEU case law of family reunification analyzed in this work contains the problem of third country national family member residence in EU. The attention is paid to the sensitive issue of family rights protection in EU while Article 20 TFEU is applied in every certain situation. The possibility of reverse discrimination is also analyzed, which appears as a threat caused by Article 20 TFEU application in the judgments of these ground-breaking EU citizenship cases of family reunification. |
| Type |
Master thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2014 |
