As a national of an EU country you are also a citizen of the European Union. This gives you a number of rights agreed by all 27 EU countries:

• to travel and live anywhere in the EU
• not to be discriminated against on the basis of your nationality
• to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal and European Parliament elections wherever you live in the EU
• if your own country is not represented, to be assisted by another EU country's embassy or consulate outside the EU, under the same conditions as a citizen of that country
• to petition the European Parliament and to bring a case to the European Ombudsman
• to initiate, together with other EU citizens, a citizens' initiative to call for new EU legislation.

These rights apply not only if you decide to live in another EU country but also when travelling or staying for a short period elsewhere in the EU (for instance as a tourist, student, trainee, frontier worker, weekly commuter, patient, for business, etc.), or even when you're shopping online.