2013 will be the European Year of Citizens. EUNET, together with other European networks and civil society organizations, welcomes Commission's proposal to put Union citizenship at the heart of the political agenda.

Nevertheless, we are deeply concerned that, in the framework of the European Year of Citizens 2013, the EU citizenship tends to be confined to an individual rights-based approach and does not tackle the Europeans' sense of belonging to a common European Union.

EUNET had joined an alliance of civil society organisations to explicitly broaden the scope of the EY2013 to all aspects of citizenship and raise its budget.

The European Year of Citizens Alliance website is now online.