This book argues that there is an inherent relationship between EU
fundamental rights and EU citizenship: they both have the same objective
of guaranteeing protection for the individual. This is underpinned by
the development of case law in the field by the Court of Justice of the
EU (CJEU). Here, however, the author proposes that that relationship has
weakened in recent years as the CJEU has entered increasingly sensitive
territory in regard to the protection of citizenship rights and
fundamental rights.
Writing in the post UK-EU referendum environment, the author argues that
this decline is attributable to increasing Euroscepticism, which has
worsened since the Eurozone crisis and even more so in light of Brexit,
and arguments made that leaving the EU would reduce immigration. This
argument is particularly important to note given the rising fears of
immigration that underlie much of the dissatisfaction with the EU
project: a feeling prevalent not only in the UK. The chapters look at
the rights of migrant EU citizens in Member States other than their own,
and the guarantees that exist as a matter of protecting their
fundamental human rights, which are present alongside rights enjoyed as
part of being an EU citizen.