Citizenship, Europe and the Financial Crisis

Peter Schuck of Yale Law School has written an interesting editorial about the EU and the limits of European Citizenship in the Huffington Post:  Citizenship and the Financial Crisis in Europe

Nationalism has been on the rise in Europe, with far right parties gaining ground in places like Sweden, the Netherlands, and continuing their support in Denmark and France. These developments are having an impact on approaches to citizenship and immigration.  There appears to be an interaction between the fiscal crisis and nationalism, but many of these trends started to develop long before the fiscal crisis hit in 2007-2008.  Scotland's potential bid for independence and developments in Hungary are an indication of the response to supranationalization and the lack of a conception of EU citizenship and identity. The Hungarian government has taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy in its bid to consolidate political power in the face of EU disapproval. The ideas of citizenship and solidarity are going through change, but can Danes or Germans identify with Greeks or Spaniards and was this ever a realistic goal?