ABSTRACT

This chapter focueses on EU citizenship, and in particular the way that EU citizenship and national systems of migration law interact, both challenging each other in various ways. It also focuses on the particular issues: solidarity, security, and ‘second-class citizens’. One of the interesting features of the legal landscape of EU citizenship is the development of the new consolidatory Directive, and the way in which judicial and legislative developments are interacting with each other. In relation to solidarity and particular issue of welfare tourism and ‘economic’ expulsions of those who are or become a burden on the host state, there are a few interesting comments to be made. The boundaries of solidarity are pressed even further in the Trojani case. It concerned a homeless and unemployed French national who was in a hostel in Brussels. The Court of Justice is making increasing use of it in its judgments, both as an independent source of rights and as an interpretative tool.