European citizenship is one of the oldest institutions of the EU supranational integration process. However, its peculiarity in being "additional" and no substitutive of national citi-zenship has inevitably influenced its development that, in its definition, has benefited of a favor civitatis by the EU Court of Justice. This paper intends to invite to a reflection on the current role of European citizenship within the political and legal debate. Through an over¬view of CJEU jurisprudence and the inevitable external influences to normative system, the analysis tries to outline the figure of homo europeus, considering all its changes, also gen¬erated by the impact of the economic crisis and by recent internal events to the Member States.