The impact of the development of the European Union in the French Public Law categories

Abstract

The construction of the European Union has consistently interacted with national legal orders which it proceeds. The set of rules coming from EU Law has challenged the basic notions and the old legal categories built by national legal systems. This article considers the impact of EU law on the important notion of sovereignty - consubstantial, in France, to the notion of State and, secondly, examines what consequences the EU law could produce regarding the status of French nationals, which have become, since the Treaty of Maastricht, citizens of the European Union. The two terms of the major political relation: State and citizen, are definitely under EU Law influence.