Yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. You've all survived week five. So this is the week six iteration of ourselves, lunchtime lectures. We're very fortunate because we've got Professor Dimitvi Koshinov, who's the chair in EU constitutional law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

He is an expert on EU citizenship, which is also his topic today, but also works on

EU principles, and more interestingly, the EU law in the overseas procession so maybe in the

question and answer session we all have time to also ask him questions about

that Dimitri thank you very much for traveling to Cambridge and the floor's

yours it's a great pleasure I should probably have proposed the topic on those dispossessions, because everybody

thinks that that's more interesting.

Everybody wants to listen about the palm trees, about coconut, milk, and this kind of stuff,

not citizenship.

But citizenship is also interesting.

And I want to move on from

citizenship to a kind of general overview of what European law is about or what

your what your what your integration is about so yeah stand behind the

lecture that's okay all right this thing records Both record. All right. I will try

not to move too much. So it's a great pleasure to be here and I will basically make five points

and I will use one starting assumption. The starting assumption is very, very simple. The European

Union is not about the market actually. The European Union is not about the market, actually.

The European Union was created with the citizen in mind.

So when we look at the founding documents, when we look at the Schumann Declaration,

I will not recite the preamble.

I will not recite what the court said about the citizen or about human beings.

But it's absolutely clear.

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