‘Feed them First, Then Ask Virtue of Them’: Broadening and Deepening Freedom of Movement

Abstract

Given Ferrera’s insistence that EU citizenship should play a more ‘integrative role’, the criteria by which we should judge whether his proposals would be successful, assuming they were ever adopted, are explicitly functional. In my contribution I seek to ground them not in a functional-empirical analysis of what is most likely to inspire support for EU citizenship but in a broader conception of social justice. The two perspectives are not in direct competition, but they do depart from very different starting points.