Abstract
This chapter analyses in detail how, and by whom, EU citizenship has been conceptualised and shaped. It is argued that the development of EU citizenship has been decisively shaped by a typical interrelation between conceptual innovations, law-making and their being put into institutional practice. EU citizenship rights were first based on conceptual innovations in the sense that “innovating ideologists” invented them. These conceptual innovations were put on paper, often in the form of policy documents. Some of them were afterwards transformed into laws. After that, they were put into political and institutional practice. In the case of EU citizenship rights, this process has been enhanced by law-making and jurisdiction of today’s Court of Justice of the European Union.
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