Free Movement as a Means of Subject-Formation: Defending a More… 115 space’ can be transformed and redefined through European integration – without just replicating the exclusionary ‘community of fate’ transnationally? If this question can only be answered in the negative, those authors who are concerned about the harmful implications of EU citizenship for political and social emancipation may have an important point to make.5 However, I have argued elsewhere that EU citizens’ equal treatment is closely connected to the gradual process of transnational subjectification, the outcome of which may ultimately justify a more positive answer to the above question of meaningful relations.6 In sum, free movement can have a central role in constructing a transnational political and legal subject. But I see it as one method of advancing more just and equal relations between EU citizens, rather than as the only objective of EU citizenship. Floris de Witte suggests that ‘the added value that EU citizenship can offer primarily lies in its connection to free movement’. However, if the added value of EU citizenship is ultimately connected to how we respond to otherness within the EU, free movement is not the only context in which EU citizens can express their subjectivity as EU citizens in a meaningful way. At the end of his forum post, de Witte, too, seems to come close to this view when he writes that free movement is how the ‘virtue’ of ‘a new – less ethnic – way of thinking about the role of the individual in the EU’ is ‘implemented’. Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permit­ ted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. 5 6 E.g. Somek, A. (2014), The Cosmopolitan Constitution. Oxford: OUP, 160–161. Neuvonen, P.J. (2016), Equal Citizenship and Its Limits in EU Law: We the Burden. Oxford: Hart.