“EUReKA – A Key Access to EU Rights” is a project funded by the European Rights, Equality and Citizenship – REC Programme. The project aims at contributing to facilitate the exercise of free movement rights and mobile EU citizens’ inclusion and participation in the host Member States through a joint local, national and transnational circulation of capacity and expertise and an advanced level of access and usability of digital information.
Germany
Under Article 9 of the TEU and Article 20 of the TFEU, every person holding the nationality of a Member State is a citizen of the Union. Nationality is defined according to the national laws of that State. Citizenship of the Union is complementary to, but does not replace, national citizenship. EU citizenship comprises a number of rights and duties in addition to those stemming from citizenship of a Member State.
Chapter 5 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is on citizens’ rights. Articles 39-46 in this chapter protect the following rights