Spodynsky O. Constitutional and legal grounds for acquisition and termination of citizenship in Ukraine and the European Union: a comparative analysis

In the dissertation the comparative analysis of the constitutional and legal bases of acquisition and termination of citizenship in the countries of the European Union and in Ukraine is carried out. Given the extreme relevance of the study and the needs of modern society, the author analyzes the concept of citizenship in the legal sense. Some doctrinal approaches of scientists to the understanding of this concept are characterized. The genesis and evolution of the concept of citizenship in national and international law are studied. It is noted that citizenship is a legally defined, stable, unlimited in time and space legal relationship of a person with a particular state, which is manifested in their mutual rights and responsibilities. Legislation on the citizenship of the vast majority of countries (France, Spain, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany, etc.) establishes a mixed principle, according to which the dominant is the "right to blood", consistent with the elements of "soil law".