Abstract
A citizen is "by definition a citizen among citizens of a country among countries. His rights and duties must be defined and limited, not only by those of his fellow citizens, but also by the boundaries of a territory [...]". Hannah Arendt asserted thus, in 1968, that the concept of citizenship is necessarily a national enterprise, an assertion that has long been taken for granted both at popular and scholar levels. However, in order to study whether this conventional view is questionable or not, we need to make an attempt to define the much controversial concept of "citizenship". Indeed, the primary study of the different angles of citizenship, and the way they all are bound to the concept of "nation-state", seems the best way to understand how extraordinary a challenge to this view the emergence of a transnational "European citizenship" is nowadays.
