All the rules, all the borders, all their values have been created, quite hard earned in fact, with a lot of blood and sweat along the way I might add, even more so than at an Apple smartphone factory if you can believe it.
I am a French citizen, my passport says I am a French citizen, and I do not have a SINGLE legal document mentioning "European citizen".
There's 3 lines written in different languages in this order :
- Union européenne
- République française
- Passeport
It doesn't says "French citizen" either, just "French Republic" and "European Union" multiple times.
Yes it does, it's clearly written:
"Nationalite: Francaise"
NOT:
"Nationalite: Francaise, Europeenne"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passports_of_the_European_Unio...
You might want to check what the Treaty on European Union (Title II, Article 9) says about that:
"Every national of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship."[0]
It is possible to possess a citizenship without owning any legal documents that mention that fact.
[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Consolidated_version_of_the_T...