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Revisiting Union Citizenship from a Fundamental Rights perspective in the time of Brexit

Volker Roeben, Petra Minnerop, Pedro Telles Orcid Logo, Jukka Snell

European Human Rights Law Review, Volume: 5, Pages: 450 - 473

Swansea University Author: Pedro Telles Orcid Logo

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The aim of this article is to offer a fundamental rights’ reading of Union Citizenship at a time where individual life choices based on the assumed certainty of Union Citizenship and the right to free movement are put in jeopardy. The withdrawal of a Member State from the European Union serves as a...

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Published in: European Human Rights Law Review
ISSN: 1361-1526
Published: 2018
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