(Re)Discovering to be an european citize The necessity of the education to European Citizenship in order to (ac)knowledge the active role to play in the Unio

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Abstract

It has been 13 years since the European Year of Citizenship Through Education. The need of the role of the education relating to European Union’s issues is now clearer and clearer. Indeed, even though the Treaties define every inhabitant of the Member States as “citizen” and give him or her very specific rights and duties, the debates linked to the European Citizenship continue to be characterised by the vagueness and the uncertainty showed by the main characters of te story themselves. Much of the problem lies in the origin, which means in the education of the European citizens. Because of negligence or because of the lack of adequate information, many European inhabitants are European citizens without knowing it or they don’t know what this title really means. A lot of them are European citizens without having the awareness of beeing it. It is evident that the European Union, which is perceived far from people, has to be brought closer to the public. The education to European citizenship has become a priority in the school curricula of every Member State. So, this has happened in Italy too. But it seems that our country underestimated the importance of the problem.

• #democratic deficit
• #education
• #eurobarometer
• #European citizenship
• #european elections
• #European Union