ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights two aspects of the new citizenship article with a view to future citizenship practice. One is an understanding of how the formal resources of the acquis have been expanded and what this implies for citizenship practice. This aspect relies largely on legal information. It is based on the letter of the treaty and most extensively elaborated by legal studies. The other is about the informal resources of the acquis that provide information about the meaning of this newly established supranational citizenship. It includes public expectations of citizenship and the means to realize them. The chapter demonstrates this aspect was most clearly explored by groups and committees of the European Parliament as well as by a rising number of interest groups as well as social movements. Article 8 European Community Treaty defined those citizens who had access to the political right to vote as citizens of the Union, leaving the definition of national citizenship to each member state.
