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Lawyer familiar with EU law needed (to sue my employer in Poland) [65]
Read the Treaty of Lisbon, article 20.
I don't have to because I can read the only document that matters - my Polish passport.
If I were an EU citizen, parallel and equal to my Polish and the US citizenship, I could walk into an EU office somewhere to renounce my EU citizenship.
Where is that office? I would appreciate the address and the phone number.
EU is a contract. Period. A piece of paper or a file on some computer. Just as the UN and NAFTA. Under this contract the residents are given certain freedoms. NAFTA allows for free movement of goods and capital. EU allows people to move and work. The EU citizenship is a fake political move to create a greater illusion of belonging.
So, one more time: where can I go and renounce my EU citizenship without renouncing Polish? I know how to do with my US and Polish citizenship, so that should be an easy question to answer.
No matter how much you try and argue about this, the fact remains that EU citizenship exists and is used on a practical level daily,
Just because it exists, it does not mean that it's not meaningless. A simple test: just remove Section 1 from Article 20 and change Section 2 as follows:
Now:
2. Citizens of the Union shall enjoy the rights and be subject to the duties provided for in the Treaties.Changed:
2. Citizens of the member countries shall enjoy the rights and be subject to the duties provided for in the Treaties.Poof, just like that the EU "citizenship" is gone and nothing has changed.
The facts that I can't renounce it is proof positive it's a feel-good fake.