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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2-3 / 2005  
         
  Article:   CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY AND MIGRATION IN THE UE: A PROPOSAL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC INCLUSION OF THE RESIDENTS OF LONG LIFE OF THE NONMEMBER STATES / CITOYENNETÉ, IDENTITÉ ET MIGRATION DANS L’UE : UNE PROPOSITION POUR L’INCLUSION DÉMOCRATIQUE DES RÉSIDENTS DE LONGUE DURÉE DES ETATS TIERS.

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  Abstract:  The object of this article is to examine how the new paradigm of multi-level, postmodern or disaggregated citizenship can be applied to the European construction and if such a design facilitates the democratic inclusion of the long-term resident third country nationals in the European Union. The article analyzes several scenarios of democratic inclusion of long-term resident third country nationals in the EU and proposes a solution. The dilemma of citizenship in Europe is related to the internal dynamics of the EU, determined by the European citizenship, and to the external dynamics of globalization, the phenomenon of transnational migrations. The first section examines the evolution of the concept of citizenship, the current revision of this concept and the possibility of a change of paradigm. In a second part, we will make a comparative analysis of the legal status of the European citizens and of the long-term residents third country nationals, particularly of the fundamental, complementary and derived political rights, such as they are defined in the EU legislation and in the national legal orders. Finally we will identify and compare three possible solutions of democratic inclusion. The first scenario proposes a separation of the principle determining the European citizenship from the nationality of the Member States. This scenario implies basing the European citizenship on the residence in the European Union. The second solution puts forward a fragmentary inclusion by the attribution of the political rights of the European citizens to all the residents of Non-member states. The third solution aims at a perfect inclusion by the extension of the European citizenship via the national citizenship. We examine the impact of these three scenarios of democratic inclusion on the national citizenship and the European democracy. Based on this analysis we will make a proposal for the implementation of the political rights of the long-term resident third country nationals and we will determine the conditions for the attribution of these rights.  
         
     
         
         
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