Petition 0101/2017 “To challenge the loss of of EU citizenship of 64 million people and to challenge the limitation of the rights all other European citizens as a result of BREXIT“
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8 February 2017: Submission of the Petition to the European Parliament
21 June 2017: Presentation of the Petition to the Members of the Petitions Committee
26 June 2017: Start collecting signatures!
The submitted text
To challenge the loss of EU citizenship of 64 million people and to challenge the limitation of the rights all other European citizens as a result of BREXIT
We, the undersigned, ask that the European Parliament should use its powers of inquiry and oversight to challenge the assumption that citizens of a country leaving the EU should lose their EU citizenship. Deprivation of citizenship is a measure of last resort, the risk of which should always be brought to the attention of individuals concerned who should have a right of appeal. Article 20 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union states that “every person holding the nationality of a member state shall be a citizen of the Union”, but is silent, as is the rest of the Treaty, on what should happen in case a Member State withdraws from the Union.
Can UK citizens be involuntarily stripped of their EU citizenship and European citizens in the UK of their rights?
We ask the European Parliament to hear those concerned. Should European citizens who planned their future and that of their children be stripped of a status they could reasonably assume should be kept for the rest of their lives? Is EU citizenship, which has been made a “fundamental status” in case law by the Court of justice of the EU so meaningless that it can just be swept aside?
We suggest that the European Parliament:
In a more interconnected world this first transnational citizenship of the modern era was enacted to bring people together. As the only EU institution which is directly elected, the European Parliament has the responsibility to protect this uniquely European concept and the rights of all European citizens.
Deprivation of citizenship is a measure of last resort, the risk of which should always be brought to the attention of individuals concerned who should have a right of appeal. Article 20 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union states that “every person holding the nationality of a member state shall be a citizen of the Union”, but is silent, as is the rest of the Treaty, on what should happen in case a Member State withdraws from the Union.
Can UK citizens be involuntarily stripped of their EU citizenship and European citizens in the UK of their rights?
We asked the European Parliament to hear those concerned. Should European citizens who planned their future and that of their children be stripped of a status they could reasonably assume should be kept for the rest of their lives? Is EU citizenship, which has been made a “fundamental status” in case law by the Court of justice of the EU so meaningless that it can just be swept aside?
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