An emerging era of integration with embryo of EU eitizenship: EU workers’ rights in a single market

Abstract

The European Union (EU) as a single market embraces, inter alia, free movement of persons including those ‘exercising a Treaty right’ as a worker. While the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) gives workers the rights to move across EU member states, the concept of EU citizenship emerges increasingly controversial, apparently not being impacted by developments of Brexit. Drawing on the prevailing EU law as elaborated by the legislation and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), this article examines and prompts to inspiration of an evolving legal order on EU citizenship for a new era of integration.