Editing Maastricht Treaty (section)

==Citizenship of the European Union==
From the establishment of the European Economic Community in 1957, integrationists argued the free movement of workers was the logical corollary of the free movement of capital, goods and services and integral to the establishment of a common (and later single) European market. In time, the tension between the transferred worker as "a mobile unit of production" contributing to the success of the single market, and the reality of the Community migrants as individuals, seeking to exercise "a personal right" to live and work in another state for their own, and their families', welfare, asserted itself.<ref>See [[P Craig]] and G de Burca, ''European Union Law'' (2003) 701,</ref> The Treaty built on the growing suggestion that there was a Community-wide basis for citizenship rights.

The Treaty rules that "every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union".<ref>TEU p. 15</ref> This common and parallel citizenship accords the Member State migrants not only the civil right to take up residence and employment, but also, and for the first time, political rights. In a new EU country of residence Member-State nationals have the right to vote, and to stand, in both local and European elections. Unresolved in the Treaty is the question of their access to social rights. Political debate continued as to who should have access to public services and welfare systems funded by taxation.<ref>[[JHH Weiler]], 'The European Union belongs to its citizens: Three immodest proposals' (1997) [http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415458511/parts/part-2/students/articles/weiler-article.rtf 22 European Law Review 150]</ref>