http://www.eucaselaw.info a blog about leading judgments of the ECJ, CFI, CST and ECtHR Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:02:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Nationality and EU citizenship are inseparable and superimposed”. Matters of nationality remain within the exclusive competence of the Member States. They decide who can or cannot be an EU citizen. Being a national of a Member State is the condition sine qua non for acquiring EU citizenship, and therefore enjoying the ... http://www.eucaselaw.info/micheletti-1992/ On 22 September 2003 the Council adopted the Directive 2003/86/EC which determine the conditions for the exercise of the right to family reunification by nationals of non-member States residing lawfully in the territory of the Member States. The directive provides in particular that a national of a non-member State lawfully ... http://www.eucaselaw.info/parliament-v-council-2006/ 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 ... http://www.eucaselaw.info/hartmann-2007-pending/ 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 ... http://www.eucaselaw.info/hosse-2006/ 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 ... http://www.eucaselaw.info/commission-v-netherlands-2007/