ABSTRACT
Among the debates concerning the building of a European Union (EU), the issue of European citizenship ranks high. Indeed, attempts to delineate the definition as well as the content of such a citizenship have given birth to a large literature, questioning its actuality, feasibility or even its very desirability. But while jurists, political scientists or sociologists argue heatedly over the hopes or threats such a new (level of) citizenship would entail, much of these discussions tend to stay at a theoretical and/or normative level, and only a few authors refer to actual practices in which citizens would be involved and which would foster new affiliations or sets of references, or to policies and discourses produced by European institutions on the issue.
