Is there a common ground on which a European citizenship can be constructed? This volume looks at four foundations of citizenship in Europe: the legacy of national identities, current designs and projects for social and political citizenship in Europe, a transitional public space as the basis of an active European citizenship, and a transitional collective identity as a symbolic boundary marker for European citizenship.

• Introduction: European Citizenship - an avenue for the social integration of Europe


• Part I National legacies of belonging: the tradition of citizenship in Europe


• 2: Dieter Gosewinkel: Citizenship, subjecthood, nationality. Concepts of belonging in the age of modern nation-states


• 3: Bernhard Giesen: National identity and citizenship. The cases of Germany and France


• Part II Projects for full citizenship in the Europolity


• 4: Klaus von Beyme: Citizenship and the European Union


• 5: Philippe C. Schmitter: The scope of citizenship in a democratized European Union: from economic to political to social and cultural?


• 6: Wolfgang Streeck: Citizenship under regime competition: the case of the European Works Councils


• Part III Citizenship participation in a European public space


• 7: Yasemin Soysal: Changing boundaries of participation in European Public Spheres


• 8: Carlos Closa: Requirements of a European public sphere: civil society, self and citizenship institutionalization


• Part IV Postnational projects of belonging: the question of a European identity


• 9: M. Rainer Lepsius: Is there a cultural identity emerging in the European Union?


• 10: Klaus Eder: Integration through culture? The paradox of the search for a European identity


• 11: Klaus Eder and Bernhard Giesen: Conclusion: Citizenship and the making of a European society. From the political to the social integration of Europe