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Skanavi v Chryssanthakopoulos [1996]
June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The early history of the interpretation of the EU citizenship provisions in the ECJ did not seem encouraging.
In the case Skanavi v Chryssanthakopoulos (the first judgment discussing citizenship), in a reference for a preliminary ruling, the Amtsgericht Tiergarten Berlin asked, inter alia, whether article 18 (1) EC was incompatible with a provision of national legislation […]
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Commission v Belgium [2006]
June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The case concerns the condition under EC law that economically non-active people who wish to reside in the EU must not become an unreasonable financial burden on their host Member State.
As we already know, the economically non-active persons who are nationals of an EU Member State have the right to reside in another Member State […]
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Zhu and Chen [2004]
June 2, 2007 | 1 Comment
As a new variant of citizenship cases, we have to mention the Catherine Zhu decision of 19 October 2004. This case gives us the opportunity to examine once more the evolution of the concept of EU Citizenship and most of all the rights linked to it.
Catherine Zhu was the child of a Chinese couple working […]
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Michel Trojani [2004]
June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Trojani case tried to settle the boundaries of the concept of EU Citizenship regarding access to social security benefits. The decision of the ECJ in the Trojani case went further with the development of the relationship between article 12 and 17 EC Treaty.
The applicant in this case was a French national lawfully residing in […]
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Marie-Nathalie D’Hoop [2002]
June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In the D’Hoop case, the ECJ broadened its reasoning to migrant nationals of one Member State. Ms. D’Hoop a Belgian national had completed her baccalaureate in France before commencing university studies in Belgium. After she had completed her university studies she had applied for a “tide over allowance” (a social benefit available for students seeking […]