Information and Citizenship in the EU Commission

This review gives an overview over citizenship and information at the European Commission. Citizenship information is currently an important topic at the European Commission, because the Commission regards it as an important step to an involvement of European citizens into the European unification process and ultimately as a condititio sine qua non to the success of the European unification efforts. This report first introduces the European concept of citizenship information: European citizenship is different to national citizenship, in so far as it is a citizenship complementary to national citizenship. Citizenship information covers information about rights and information for democratic control. There is little information about obligations because the European citizen has no direct obligations to Europe. Information about rights is regarded most important to the ordinary citizen; information for democratic control is most eagerly supplied by the Commission.     «

This review gives an overview over citizenship and information at the European Commission. Citizenship information is currently an important topic at the European Commission, because the Commission regards it as an important step to an involvement of European citizens into the European unification process and ultimately as a condititio sine qua non to the success of the European unification efforts. This report first introduces the European concept of citizenship information: European citizenshi...     »