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Consular protection is one of the rights derived from EU citizenship, a fundamental right in the EU legal framework. Directive 2015/637 on the coordination and cooperation measures to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented EU citizens in third countries obliges any Member State to offer unrepresented EU citizens in third countries the same protection as it provides for its own nationals. In practice, unrepresented EU citizens can seek assistance, for instance, an emergency travel document ...

According to Article 20(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), every person holding the nationality of a Member State is a Union citizen. Union citizenship is additional to national citizenship and does not replace it. The concept of Union citizenship was introduced in the Treaty on European Union, signed in Maastricht in 1992, which endowed Union citizens with a number of novel rights, including political rights. Union citizens enjoy the right to move and reside freely ...

EU citizenship grants the nationals of each Member State, who are in distress in a third country, the entitlement to consular assistance by any other Member State. This principle – enshrined in Article 20 of the EC Treaty and Article 46 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – not only acts as a concrete expression of Union citizenship but also serves to strengthen this same citizenship, by giving it an external dimension and making it more tangible in the eyes of individual citizens ...