Administrative Citizenship and Public Services: Is the Constitutional Project Still Possible in the Perspective of the Union?

The contribution aims to investigate if public services are still the tool for the establishment of a community and an administrative citizenship, also in an Eu-ropean dimension. Public services, indeed, are not only functional to respond to the needs of the community, but also serve to “form” that community, giving body to the administrative citizenship of its members. In the perspective of European law, a service, however, before being an instrument for the transformation of society, is a productive economic activity. Behind this position there is a precise idea of public service: not as a place where the relationship between institutions and the commu-nity is realized in a choice, even political, but as “product”. A project of society and European citizenship needs a Public sphere that had a role that goes beyond the simple intermediation between users and business, and a real European budget that redistributes the burden of ensuring a certain level of social services for all.