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Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(4):709-712; doi:10.1093/pa/gsl041
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Citizenship, Borders and Identity in an Enlarging EU

JOAN DEBARDELEBEN (ed.), Soft or Hard Borders? Managing the Divide in an Enlarged Europe, Ashgate, 2005, 214 pp., ISBN 0 7546 4338 7, £49.95.

FIORELLA DELL’OLIO, The Europeanization of Citizenship: Between the Ideology of Nationality, Immigration and European Identity,Ashgate, 2005, 170 pp., ISBN 0 7546 3595 3, £50.00.

Jane Freedman

Lectures in the department of politics at Southampton University.

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The current ‘crisis’ of the European Union following the rejection of the new Constitutional Treaty in referenda in France and the Netherlands might be seen, at least in part, as a result of the failure to create a new European identity and to give a real meaning to European citizenship. This difficulty in creating a real citizenship status that has a genuine meaning for those living in European member states has only been complicated by the accession of ten new member states, an accession that might be seen to have diluted even further the process of ‘Europeanisation’ and the creation of a European identity. Enlargement has at the same time posed new dilemmas for the EU, including questions related to borders, migration and security, and these questions have in turn posed obstacles to the public acceptance of further integration and enlargement. In these circumstances, it is vital to produce new . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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