The pending case Hartmann (C-212/05) is based on the refusal of the German Freistaat Bayern to give a child raising allowance for Ms. Hartmann who is an Austrian citizen living in Austria with her German husband and their three children. Ms. Hartmann is a house wife and Mr. Hartmann works in Germany for Deustche Telekom. [...]

Hosse [2006]

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In this case, Mr Hosse, of German nationality, is a frontier worker employed in Austria as a teacher in the Province of Salzburg. He pays taxes and social security contributions in Austria and is affiliated to sickness insurance in that State. He resides in Germany, near the Austrian frontier, with his daughter Silvia Hosse, who [...]

In this case, a number of EU citizens were sentenced to imprisonment in the Netherlands. They complained to the Commission about the measures taken against them by the Dutch authorities declaring them undesirable on public policy grounds.
After examining those complaints, the Commission concluded that the general legislation of the Netherlands relating to foreign nationals, which [...]

As has been stated by the ECJ in its ruling in Olazabal, “article 18 EC … finds specific expression in article 39 EC”. In this case it was held that the right of free movement and residence is subject to limitations and conditions laid down elsewhere in the Treaty and its secondary legislation.
Mr. Oteiza Olazabal, [...]

In the Uecker and Jacquet cases, some of the oldest cases where the EU citizenship has been mentioned, two third-country national spouses of German nationals, who had resided and worked in Germany all their lives, attempted to rely on the same rights under EC free movement provisions as third-country nationals married to EU citizens who [...]

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