Balancing the Rights of European Citizenship with Duties Towards National Citizens: An Inter-National Perspective

Abstract

Ferrera offers his proposal as a way of reconciling national citizens to the trans- and supra-national citizenship regime promoted by the EU. This chapter argues that his proposal is better seen as part of the EU’s inter-national regime, in which the national citizenship regimes of each of the member states are balanced against each other in order to adress the moral and functional challenges posed by interdependence in a globalising world.