http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180301-134525 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/misguided-associate-eu-citizenship-talk-as-a-denial-of-eu-values/ Misguided ‘Associate EU Citizenship’ Talk as a Denial of EU Values Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich eng 2018-03-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 brexit democracy union citizenship Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Guy Verhofstadt is famous for articulate ‘The answer is more Europe’ positions on all issues European. Jan-Werner Müller might be right: should there have been no Verhofstadt, Eurosceptics would have had to invent him. This is particularly so given his position on EU citizenship for UK nationals after Brexit as the chief European Parliament Brexit negotiator. In this contribution, I explain why playing with any kind of ‘associate EU citizenship status’ for the Brits after Brexit is a terrible idea undermining all what should be cherished about the project of European unity.