This chapter highlights a dynamic interpretation of the institution of EU citizenship, which could enable us to defend, at least partially, academic freedom Europe-wide. It is based on the fact that EU citizenship has evolved greatly in its history, and this process could probably continue. The topic has special relevance because of two problems. First is the marketization of academia, which has a strong effect on academic freedom. Second, in Hungary and Poland issues related to the authoritarian turn of their governments and the techniques of autocratic legalism have resulted in a systemic limitation of academic freedom. In response, the EU could find itself competency to act in these cases through interpreting academic citizens as EU citizens with fundamental rights in the higher education sector.
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https://tdziegler.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/kostakopoulou_chapter-12.pdf
This chapter was published in: Using EU Citizenship to Protect Academic Freedom, in: RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENSHIP LAW AND POLICY: NAVIGATING CHALLENGES AND CRISES (Eds. Daniel Thym and Dora Kostakopoulou), Edward Elgar 2022 184-200.
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