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Heikki Antero Pusa [2004]
June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In this case, the ECJ examined whether the Finnish tax legislation on pensions could place at a disadvantage its nationals only because they had exercised their right to free movement and residence in another Member State, and hence leading to inequality of treatment.
Mr. Pusa a Finnish national exercised his free movement right after retirement and [...]
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Hendrix [2007 pending]
June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The social benefit issue is a very sensitive and controversial one in the EU law. Some decisions of the ECJ point to the important existence of a “real and effective link” requirement as regards the Member State from which payment of the social benefit is sought but the clearest signs of such a development are [...]
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Ayadi and Hassan [2006]
June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
After the Yusuf and Kadi cases, another two cases entered in the CFI attention.Once again in the Ayadi and Hassan cases the CFI ruled that the fundamental rights of two terrorist suspects were not violated when EU Member States froze their assets.
Ireland and the UK froze the bank accounts of a Tunisian and Libyan national, [...]
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Yusuf and Kadi [2005]
June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment
With the decisions from September 2005 in the Yusuf and Kadi cases, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (CFI) refused to review the European Regulation 881/2002 that contains the list of individuals and entities whose assets must be frozen, due to suspected terrorist links. Regulation 881 had been adopted by the Council [...]
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Egon Schempp [2005]
June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In its Schempp judgment of 12 July 2005 the ECJ denied a German taxpayer the right to deduct from his income tax the maintenance support to his divorced wife who lived in Austria, a country in which this maintenance is not taxable. It was clear for the ECJ that this problem falls into the sphere [...]