Has anyone applied for EU citizenship? I did try to start a new conversation, but it wouldn’t let me start it! Anyway, any tips for how to get one please and does it count if we were married in France 15 years ago (though both British Nationals)?
Do you mean French citizenship? There’s no such thing as EU citizenship.
P.S. I’ve just answered your PM 
No, there’s a clue in the bit you put in parentheses 
The rules for obtaining nationality vary somewhat from state to state, usually you’d have to have either residence and income for a certain amount of time, or family reasons eg a parent or grandparent of the relevant nationality.
There was/is a fairly pointless campaign to develop this concept, butI think it was poorly supported and didn’t get anywhere, could be wrong but not heard of it for a while.
For you, if you’ve been here over 5 years, speak French reasonably well, and have French income greater than your non-French income then you could apply for French nationality. If you’ve wanted of course!
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I think it was mainly a last-ditch effort by UK Remainers to salvage something from the wreckage of Brexit - the idea that EU citizenship was a separate thing from national citizenship and that therefore it was illegal for the UK to take it away - I think it went up to the European court but was rejected fairly swiftly, on the grounds that citizenship is a nation state thing and nation states can do what they like, including withdrawing from supra-national organisations like the EU.
I do still keep my “GB” badge with the blue background and circle of yellow stars on my car though, as a gesture towards the idea… 
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If you’ve not also got the UK one, it’s now illegal in France- not that imagine anyone would care. Mind you, we see very few of either down here nowadays.
Yes I do (reluctantly) have Mr. Grant Shapps’ “no we are not going to change from GB” UK badge on as well…
Despite my general disdain for Corinne Stockheath* et al, I thought the change to UK rather than GB was the right thing to do.
*Google it if you’re baffled by it.
Well it’s logical in that it includes Northern Ireland, but since the GB identifier has been used and understood since 1910 it seems a bit unnecessary to change it.
In the political context of the time and in light of Irish sensitivities, I can see the rationale for it, trying to keep the unionists from realising that they’d be somewhat different from the rest of the UK.
Perhaps, as a Scot, I have some sympathy with part of the UK that’s generally seen as not much more than an afterthought in English politics.
Yes me too.