Katarzyna Strąk
Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 2 (180), 2021 (XLVII), pp. 7-17
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.21.017.13773Katarzyna Strąk
Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 2 (180), 2021 (XLVII), pp. 163-182
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.21.024.13780The subject of this article is to attempt to assess the impact of the 2015 European Agenda on Migration on the status of an EU citizen. This assessment was carried out in the context of freedom of movement under Article 21 TFEU, within two areas. The first one is the temporary introduction of controls at the internal borders of EU Member States, the second one are measures adopted by Member States and related to the maintenance of public order and public security, including protection against the terrorist threat. The research material is however relatively sparse, limited to selected provisions of the Schengen Borders Code and selected cases before the Court of Justice of the EU, still mostly pending. Nonetheless, one conclusion that emerges from this analysis is that EU rules, even if they actually restrict the legal situation of EU citizens, fall within the scope of acceptable restrictions. The real impact on the limitation of the rights attached to the status of EU citizen is in the Member States’ legislation.