70As a preliminary point, it must be recalled that, in accordance with the Court’s settled case-law, Article 20 TFEU confers on every individual who is a national of a Member State citizenship of the Union, which is intended to be the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States (see judgments of 20 September 2001, Grzelczyk, C‑184/99, EU:C:2001:458, paragraph 31, and 8 March 2011, Ruiz Zambrano, C‑34/09, EU:C:2011:124, paragraph 41 and the case-law cited).
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