Since 1951 the European Commission (and before that the High Authority) had a continuous civil aim: the stimulation of a European civil consciousness amongst a European public. One of the ways in which it attempted to achieve this was through the public communication of European citizenship, the meaning of which changed depending on the social, political, economic, historical and institutional contexts of European integration. The different meanings of European citizenship are best understood as five representations which the European Commission communicated between 1951 and 2014: Homo Oeconomicus (1951–1972), A People's Europe (1973–1992), Europe of Transparency (1993–2004), Europe of Agorai (2005–2009) and Europe of Rights (2010–2014). When combined they form an uninterrupted European civil narrative.
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