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Book review: The Rise and Decline of Fundamental Rights in EU Citizenship

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DOI10.1177/1388262719890704
Date01 December 2019
AuthorZiemowit Cieślik
Published date01 December 2019
Subject MatterBook reviews
EJS890705 384..402 400
European Journal of Social Security 21(4)
currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at Hamburg University. Her interests include civil
law, German and European employment law and social law.
Yong, Adrienne (2019), The Rise and Decline of Fundamental Rights in EU Citizenship, Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 226 pages, ISBN: 9781509917938 (hardback).
Reviewed by: Ziemowit Cies´lik, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University, Poland
DOI: 10.1177/1388262719890704
The 1993 Treaty of Maastricht considerably altered the direction and nature of European integra-
tion. As the agreement entered into force, the European Communities ceased to be an association
of states centred around economic values and the notion of the internal market. They became the
European Union, which, by definition, sets itself more ambitious, political goals. The introduction
of the institution of European Union citizenship into treaty law is a strong expression of that
change. EU citizenship, which, as a regulatory concept, is modelled on solutions that are typical
for nation states, gives the European Union a new impetus for integration and, at the same time,
renders it more susceptible to the impact of the Union’s doctrine of fundamental rights. This book,
by the British author Adrienne Yong, which is an edited and updated version of her PhD disserta-
tion, analyses the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union with regard to EU
citizenship. Yong focuses on the relation between the concept of EU citizenship in the CJEU’s
case law and the fluctuations in the scope of EU fundamental rights protection. In accordance with
the subject of the monograph, matters other than EU law, in particular those related to national
legislation, are discussed solely on the margins of the main considerations. Yong’s central thesis is
that – despite the structural differences between the EU institutions of citizenship and fundamental
rights – the scope of protection that the Court grants to the EU citizen is determined from...

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