ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problems that EU citizenship currently faces in the light of this simultaneous crisis. It elaborates on the assumption of two basic antinomies in the concept of modern citizenship: the tension between political equality and social status on the one hand coupled with the tension between human and citizen rights on the other. The chapter focuses on the institution of EU citizenship and discusses its potential for addressing the antinomies vis-à-vis the current simultaneous crisis of the national and the post-national. It explores the prospects for European citizenship by stressing the transformative potential of a cosmopolitanisation process supported by EU citizenship practice. Citizenship is a concept with a long tradition in the history of political ideas and different trajectories. The status of EU citizenship remains normatively indeterminate as long as the standards by which the political configuration called 'European Union' is to be evaluated are so deeply contested.
