ABSTRACT
On 1 November 1993, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) instituted a ‘Citizenship of the Union’ on a formal legal basis and attached certain rights to that status. It did this by inserting a new Part Two into the Treaty establishing the European Community (EC Treaty).1 This new citizenship status is established by Article 8 EC which provides as follows:
8. (1) Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a member state shall be a citizen of the Union.
