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Research project

CitWidE - The state of citizenship in a wider Europe: towards convergence?

This project has received funding via the EUI Widening Programme call 2024. The EUI Widening Europe Programme initiative, backed by contributions from the European Union and EUI Contracting States, is designed to strengthen internationalisation, competitiveness, and quality in research in Widening countries, and thus foster a more cohesive European Higher Education and Research area.

Citizenship laws are traditionally viewed as the bastion of national sovereignty where, except for human rights norms on non-discrimination and avoiding statelessness, there is strong resistance to internationalization. This is the case even in the European Union, where member state nationality provides access to Union citizenship yet the competence to regulate citizenship is principally located at the level of the national state.

In the wake of the 2004 EU enlargement, scholars speculated about convergence in citizenship policies towards a more immigrant-friendly model among new member states with putatively ethnic traditions that prioritized diaspora ties over newcomers’ integration. While East-West stereotypes have been criticized for misrepresenting historical legacies, this does not prejudice real pressures exerted by Europeanisation, recent migration experiences and democratic consolidation.

This project leverages an expert network covering 12 East European countries. We will take stock of these developments and ask: What is the impact of legal, demographic and political developments on the regulation of citizenship in post-2004 EU member states and candidate countries?

The project team works in close cooperation with the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) project of the Global Governance Programme at the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

 

For more information about the EUI Widening Europe Programme, please visit the official webpage.

The team

Group members

  • Portrait picture of Rainer Baubock

    Rainer Baubock

    Visiting Fellow

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  • Portrait picture of Ashley Mantha-Hollands

    Ashley Mantha-Hollands

    Max Weber Fellow

    Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  • Portrait picture of Clara Muller

    Clara Muller

    Research Associate

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

    Researcher

    Department of Law

  • Lucas Van Der Baaren

    Visiting Fellow

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  • Portrait picture of Raghavi Viswanath

    Raghavi Viswanath

    Researcher

    Department of Law

  • Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova

    Senior Research Fellow

    Central European University

  • Andrea Barsova

    Director

    Office of the Government, Czech Republic

  • Vainius Bartasevičius

    Lecturer

    Vilnius University

  • Fabian Burkhardt

    Research Associate

    Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

  • Ramesh Ganohariti

    Lecturer

    Leiden University

  • Constantin Iordachi

    Professor

    Central European University

  • Portrait picture of Eleanor Knott

    Eleanor Knott

    Assistant Professor

    London School of Economics (LSE)

  • Vesco Paskalev

    Senior Lecture

    Brunel University London

  • Vadim Poleschuk

    Policy Advisor

    European Parliament, Tallinn

  • Julija Sardelic

    Senior Lecturer

    Victoria University of Wellington

  • Jo Shaw

    Professor

    University of Edinburgh

  • Clarissa Tabossa

    Assistant Professor

    Comenius University Bratislava

External Partners

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