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ABSTRACT
Citizenship, as all other human rights, is a variable that changes during the evolution of history, so that the determinations considered absolute in a period, in a certain social and cultural context, lose importance in other periods. The notion of European citizenship is based on rights and corresponding obligations, implying the fact that the citizens of the European Union benefit, in this quality, of the same rights that are traditionally awarded to own citizens in the internal legal order. The citizens of the Member States are not only participants in the European construction, but they represent themselves the final purpose, being the beneficiaries of the effects of the decisions made by the European courts over their personal and professional life and, because of this reason, the concept of "European citizenship" was created and regulated through Article 8 of the Maastricht Treaty which awarded a new legal status to the citizens of each member state of the European Union, awarding specific rights to them, deriving from the fact that their own state belonged to the European Union. By applying the "unity in diversity" principle which the united Europe is built upon, the European citizenship represents equality before the adopted laws and the problems and dissatisfactions of citizens can be the same regardless of nationality or ethnicity and common solutions need to be built for these. By the inclusion of rights, obligations, as well as by participating in the political life, the European citizenship has the purpose of consolidating the image and identity of the European Union and the more profound involvement of the citizen in the European integration process.
Keywords: human rights, European citizenship, political life, Member State of European Union, legal order
REZUMAT
Cetätenia, ca tóate celelalte drepturi ale omului, reprezintä o variabilä care se modifica în cursul evolu^iei istoriei, în a§a fel încât determinärile considerate absolute într-o perioadä, într-un anume context socio-cultural, í§i pierd importarla în alte perioade. No^iunea de cetätenie europeanä se bazeazä pe drepturi §i obligati corespondente implicänd faptul cä cetätenii Uniunii Europene beneficiazä, în aceastä calitate, de acelea§i drepturi care sunt acordate în mod traditional propriilor cetäteni în ordinea juridicä internä. Cetätenii statelor membre ale Uniunii Europene nu sunt doar participan^ ai construct^ europene, ci reprezintä ei ín§i§i chiar...