Testing Liberal Norms: The Public Policy and Public Security Derogations and the Cracks in European Union Citizenship

What is it about?

The article, published in one of the leading international journals on EU law discusses the impact of the current interpretations of the notions of public policy and public security on the legal status of long-term residents, as well as the implications of this debate to EU citizenship. The article explores in detail, for the first time, a range of alternative means to fill in the current ‘cracks’ on EU citizenship, namely by examining the potential of EU migration and external relations law, the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the notions of public policy and public security, and international migration law in this process. The article concludes with several original proposals for law and policy reform to address the counterproductive effect of national particularisms in this field. Each author contributed 50% towards the final article.

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Cited in, for example, Emanuela Pistoia, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of a Piecemeal Approach. Moving Public Policy or Public Security Offenders in Europe’ (2014) 20 European Public Law, Issue 4, pp. 745–770.