http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/771/adam-m-waite Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 19:10:02 -0400 Mon, 18 May 2026 19:10:02 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/647/european-union-citizenship-more-than-merely-financial-integration By Adam M. Waite - Firstly we will examine the concept and the evolution of European Union Citizenship as both a theory and as a reality for the nationals of member states. Although the concept of citizenship within the European Union has been part of the landscape of Europe for many decades, as Williams tells us, ‘it is still a struggle to obtain a comprehensible outline of what it means and how it is designed to develop’[1] it was not formally introduced and added to the EC Treaty until the Treaty on European Union in 1992 where under Art. 20(1) TFEU the principle of ‘Citizenship of the Union... Fri, 25 May 2012 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/647/european-union-citizenship-more-than-merely-financial-integration