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"en.20060117.16.2-110"2
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"The report is aimed at strengthening citizenship of the Union by making it independent of national citizenship and by requiring harmonised rules for the granting of national citizenship. We, for our part, believe, however, that citizenship is one of the cornerstones of the sovereignty of nation states and that each Member State must be free to make its own decisions about granting citizenship.
Of course, there may be arguments in favour of reforming the rules concerning the acquisition of national citizenship following a fairly long period of continuous residence in a country and concerning the opportunity to vote and eligibility to be a candidate in local, regional and national elections.
The issue of citizenship of the Member States is, however, exclusively an issue for the countries concerned, applying their own legislation. It is up to each Member State to establish the conditions under which citizenship is acquired or forfeited, as well as the effect citizenship is to have. The European Union has no powers in this respect. Citizenship of the Union is, then, subject to national citizenship and is thus to be defined by national laws on citizenship.
Moreover, the report contains a number of wordings concerning the introduction of an EU tax, uniform European party lists for elections to the European Parliament, the significance of a European Constitution in strengthening European solidarity and common bases for incorporating the European dimension into the curriculum of every school."@en1
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