This paper traces developments - both legal and political in nature - relating to EU citizenship and compares the status quo to what individuals might expect from citizenship particularly within the context of criminal proceedings. Drawing upon debates in political science, it highlights the divergence between EU citizenship and what would normally be associated with any idea of citizenship. Exploring the parameters of European criminal justice and its revolutionary direction of travel, this essay highlights how strongly exposed EU citizens are to enhanced coercive state power within criminal proceedings because of this status. Consequently it advances an argument that reasonable expectations of citizenship are set up to be disappointed in the current context. This is particularly true as the CJEU scales back the protections associated with EU citizenship in the face of political pressure. It argues that the loss of legitimacy the EU may suffer as a result affects not only its relationship to citizens. As the European institutions take action against democratically elected governments viewed as in breach of fundamental EU values, its potential as a policy-laundering governance level in the criminal justice arena is identified as an enormous legitimacy problem. Analysing developments relevant to citizenship from a criminal justice perspective, this paper demonstrates that reform is urgently required. Leaving EU citizenship in its current form - shaped by Executive powers - is argued to expose the EU to legitimacy arguments it cannot win, as well as individual citizens to injustice in criminal proceedings.

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真正的欧盟公民身份是欧洲真正刑事司法的先导：对欧盟公民身份的分析，因为它与自由、安全和正义的可持续领域有关

本文追溯了与欧盟公民身份相关的法律和政治方面的发展，并将现状与个人对公民身份的期望进行了比较，尤其是在刑事诉讼的背景下。借鉴政治学中的辩论，它强调了欧盟公民身份与通常与任何公民身份观念相关的内容之间的分歧。本文探讨了欧洲刑事司法的参数及其革命性的发展方向，强调了由于这种地位，欧盟公民在刑事诉讼中受到增强的强制性国家权力的影响有多大。因此，它提出了一个论点，即在当前背景下，对公民的合理期望是令人失望的。面对政治压力，欧盟法院缩减与欧盟公民身份相关的保护措施时尤其如此。它认为，欧盟可能因此失去合法性，不仅会影响其与公民的关系。随着欧洲机构对被视为违反欧盟基本价值观的民选政府采取行动，其作为刑事司法领域政策洗钱治理层的潜力被认为是一个巨大的合法性问题。本文从刑事司法的角度分析与公民相关的发展，表明迫切需要进行改革。以目前的形式离开欧盟公民身份——由行政权力塑造——被认为会使欧盟面临它无法赢得的合法性争论，