This Dictionary analyses the ways in which the statuses of European citizens are profoundly
affected by EU law. The study of one¿s particular status (as a worker consumer family member
citizen etc.) helps to reconsider the legal notions concerning an individual¿s status at the
EU level. The Dictionary includes a foreword by Evgeni Tanchev Advocate General at the Court
of Justice of the European Union which illustrates some interesting features of the Court¿s
case law on statuses.The Dictionary¿s core is composed of 79 chapters published in
alphabetical order. Each brief chapter analyses how the individual status was conditioned or
created by contemporary EU law or how the process of European integration modified the
traditional juridical definition of the respective status. The Dictionary provides answers to
the following questions: Has the process of European integration modified the traditional
juridical definition of individual status? Has the concept of legal status now acquired a new
function? What role has EU law played in developing a new modern function for the concept of
individual status? Are the selection of a specific individual status by EU law and the
proliferation of such statuses which is synonymous with the creation of new privileges
collectively undermining the goal of achieving substantive equality between EU citizens? Does
this constitute a return to the past? Under EU law is it possible to create a uniform
definition of the legal status of the person over and above the definition that is provided by
a given Member State¿s legal system?
