Sentences with phrase «replace national citizenship»

Article 20 (1) TFEU provides that citizenship of the Union is «additional to and [shall] not replace national citizenship».

The disclaimer in the next sentence delineating the «additionality» of EU citizenship and confirming that it shall «not replace national citizenship» was iteratively addended to the provision at Treaty amendments in response to political concerns of certain Member States with regard to the original Article 8a of the Maastricht Treaty (see the «Edinburgh Declaration on citizenship of the Union» by the Kingdom of Denmark).