Dimensiunea etno-culturală a cetăţeniei în legislaţia contemporană a Uniunii Europene şi a României (1992-2012)
The ethno-cultural dimension of European citizenship (1992-2012)

Summary/Abstract: My article is conceived as a comparative assessment of the implications that the European Union enlargement in 2007 has entailed upon the ethno-national belongingness among Romanian nationality and ethnic minorities in Romania. The cultural identity of ethnic and linguistic communities is currently related to the statute of European Union citizenship, as established by the article 8 of the Maastricht Treaty of European Union (1992). In such socio-economic and legislative framework, the anthropological theorizing of ethnicity and “cosmopolitanism”, alongside that of the “human rights” and the “national minorities”, actually approximates the ethno-cultural dimension of the European and national citizenship, in the historical continuity and development of the European national states, as well as within their institutional structuring, once they have adhered to a European community. The equivalence and communication between the terminology of European and national legislation (with its specialized juridical principles) endorse the European conceptualization of national citizenship, and, at the same time, the national intelligibility of European citizenship. To exemplify, the official language of Romanian state is also one of the official languages of Europen Union, which is the same as the recognition by the Constitution of Romania of the minorities’ right to use their maternal languages in justice. Similarly, the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity compose the “configuration” of ethnonationality in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, in the Constitution of Romania, and in the draft Statute of National Minorities in Romania as well.

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