The field of European citizenship has attracted increasing attention and debate as the need to re-engage young Europeans becomes more evident. Education and particularly language teaching have been frequently cited as potential channels for the educating for European citizenship. This work presents questionnaire and interview data from adolescents in England, France, Ireland and Spain. The study provides a means of better understanding European adolescents facility for active exercise of their European citizenship and the contribution that Modern Foreign Language teaching to that end. An...