Key ideas

1. Video lesson

2. PDF lesson

Belong to the EU has direct and indirect effects to the citizens of the Member States where in its extension it displays its activity.

What rights have any citizen of the Union by the fact of being so? Do I have to do something to flaunt those rights? Does It involve giving up national rights?

We will reflect on these aspects after reading Lesson 2. Citizenship of the European Union (PDF).

3. Additional contents

WEBSITES 

• EU citizenship 
• The Rights of the Union and how to exercise them 
• Glossary of European citizenship 

VIDEOS

• Your EU citizenship rights 
• Get the picture: Fundamental Rights 
• Forum: The European Year of Citizens 
• Human Rights 
• Europe for Citizens 
• Your rights while travelling in Europe 

• Is Europe protecting enough the Fundamental Rights?

   

• Survey of European minorities and discrimination

• A decade of protection of Fundamental Rights: The EU Agency