Understanding EU Citizenship: Rights, Duties, and Models
The Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of European citizens collect the civil, political, economic, and social rights of citizens who are members of unions and people living in its territory.
Intercultural Citizenship
Consider the differential rights of all ethnic groups claiming their rights and duties compatible with universal rights and duties of citizens.
Global Citizenship
It is an idea born on the understanding that all human beings share in life and world problems. In addition, the 1948 declaration is considered an achievement of human rights worldwide, valid for all humans, and its contents should be recognized in the law of any state.
Virtuous Model
Commitment to ethical issues that citizens must develop, acting rationally and freely, combining social and individual aspects, as civic ethics are fundamental to citizenship and public morality are necessary for a legal order of democratic rule of law.
What Defines a Citizen?
A citizen’s status is recognized by the individual embedded in a community with certain rights and duties in their relations with others and with the state from political, legal, social, cultural, and moral perspectives. Socially, the citizen is subject to the authority and laws of the State, which recognizes the rights of various kinds which should encourage, develop, ensure, and protect. Culturally, in contemporary societies, there are multicultural diverse cultural identities to be compatible with the rights and duties of all members.
Ethically, the citizen must recognize the dignity of every human being as a person and a unit value that must be respected by everyone, free, conscious, rational, emotional, and responsible.
Traits that Favor the Development of Citizenship
- Membership: The citizen feels a particular member of society and State and acquires their social and individual identity.
- Integration: In a civil and political society requiring universality and uniformity of rights and duties of its citizens, and to recognize and guarantee rights and duties of minorities.
- Participation: By which the citizen becomes a politically active member within the community to maintain and develop democracy.
- Globalization: Citizenship status should be extended to all members of belief, culture, ethnicity … and should be considered inclusive or exclusive.
- The Subject: Contrary to the public concept has two meanings: Being a member of a state does not confer the status of citizen. In every State there are laws and political authority to which its members are subject.
Duties of a Citizen
- Duty to cooperate in the order, peace, coexistence, and welfare of citizens.
- Duty to help eradicate corruption in all areas of the humanities.
- Duty to help eradicate corruption and abuse of political powers.
- Duty to participate responsibly in political elections and referendums to be established.
- Duty to contribute to respect for the law.
- The duty to respect the rights, duties, and freedoms of all citizens.
- The duty to respect legal social institutions.
- Duty to help eradicate social marginalization and abuse.
- Duty to preserve biodiversity and the environment to develop the human.
- Duty to contribute to sustainable development.