Abstract
Union citizenship had to be desifned as „a chance to reflect political imagination“ bridging the community of economic liberalisation with a due political union to come. Instead, no reinforcement of the Union citizens´ status has been seriously attempted until now.
However, the ECJ´s case law extended its scope. Has the capacity of Member states to achieve a political compromise on this been already exhausted? The EU and national identities stand not in a contradictory, but complementary relationship („win-win“ game).
The role of academia must be stimulation in this respect.