CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES REGARDING EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

Citizenship represents that quality of the natural person that expresses the permanent political-legal connection unlimited in time and space between this natural person and the respective state. The concept of citizenship has been subjected to numerous transformations, conditioned by the social, economic and last but not least, political changes of the last century. Thus, a new concept appeared, namely that of European citizenship, which must be clearly delimited from that of citizenship in the European space