ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the reconstruction of citizenship practice in the Maastricht period not only provides an insight into the mobilization and formalization of citizenship resources. As the stages of citizenship practice demonstrate, policy makers were successful in dusting off the resources of previous decades of citizenship policy making. During the first stage which included the preparatory documents and debates towards the convening of an intergovernmental conference on political union at European Council at Dublin (II), 25-26 June 1990, the debate over citizenship was triggered by a Spanish letter written before an inter-institutional conference in May 1990. The second stage includes the time between Dublin (II) and the first meeting of the IGC on 14-15 December 1990. The third stage lasted until the Maastricht European Council in December 1991. The fourth stage began after Maastricht and ended with the first citizenship report of the commission in 1993.
