There is a close connection between EU citizenship and rights, both in the law and literature. This article claims that EU lawyers' understanding of EU citizenship and rights suffers from empirical, normative, and conceptual shortcomings. I will point out that there has been insufficient awareness for the boundedness of EU citizenship, the political structure of the EU and the constraints this (realistically) imposes on the ‘meaningfulness’ of EU citizenship. EU citizenship must not be understood as requiring an elaborate set of equal rights for all Union citizens throuzghout the EU, but valued for its ability to allow its status holders to enjoy (almost) full membership in the Member States of which they do not possess nationality.

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欧盟公民身份和（基本）权利：经验、规范和概念问题

在法律和文献中，欧盟公民身份与权利之间有着密切的联系。本文声称欧盟律师对欧盟公民身份和权利的理解存在经验、规范和概念上的缺陷。我要指出的是，人们对欧盟公民身份的有限性、欧盟的政治结构以及这（实际上）对欧盟公民身份的“意义”施加的限制的认识不足。欧盟公民身份不应被理解为要求在整个欧盟范围内为所有欧盟公民提供一套精心设计的平等权利，而是因其允许其身份持有人在他们不拥有国籍的成员国中享有（几乎）正式成员资格的能力而受到重视.