EU Citizenship and Religious Liberty in an Enlarged Europe |
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| Authors: | Sonia Morano‐Foadi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Oxford Brookes University;2. Senior Lecturer in European Law, Oxford Brookes University. This article is based on a paper prepared for the Conference on European Law & Policy in Context entitled ‘The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy’, Birmingham, 3–4 July 2008. The author wishes to thank Professor Lucy Vickers, Dr Nazila Ghanea‐Hercock and Dr Micaela Malena for their useful comments on earlier versions of this article. |
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| Abstract: | This article intends to contribute to the theoretical debate on how EU citizenship could be regarded as a bundle of common European individual rights (and, to a lesser extent, obligations) and part of a democratic polity in which every citizen counts equally irrespectively of his/her religious belonging and faith. The EU perceives itself as a community based on shared values. Since there is no European people, nor a European polity, common values play a core role in European polity building. The question, however, is whether common values can be experienced by the EU citizens in daily life and to what extent there are common values in the EU Member States. These issues are explored using the non‐discrimination principle on grounds of religion, as a litmus‐test for the existence of common values within Europe. |
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