This paper investigates how and to what extent citizens have realised a form of political citizenship in the EU. Drawing on original focus group evidence of visiting EU and home students in Sweden and the UK, the paper probes students’ perceptions of EU citizenship across three dimensions: identity, rights and participation. It first discusses the effects of intra-EU educational mobility, paying particular attention to the impact of university contexts. The paper then underlines the apparently limited influence of these issues and identifies various factors which explain this limitation, before adopting a more inclusive approach to analysing EU citizenship. It is suggested that the dimensions of EU citizenship are interlinked and stimulate one another; therefore they should be investigated simultaneously. The interlinked nature of these dimensions shapes how people realise a form of political citizenship in the EU and it also sheds a new light on their perceptions.
