Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/15/2011

Subject: According to the Court European Union law does not preclude a Member State from refusing to allow a third country national to reside on its territory, where that third country national wishes to reside with a member of his family who is a citizen of the Union residing in the Member State of which he has nationality, who has never exercised his right to freedom of movement, provided that such refusal does not lead, for the Union citizen concerned, to the denial of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights conferred by virtue of his status as a citizen of the Union, which is a matter for the referring court to verify.

Parties: Murat Dereci e altri

Classification: Citizens’ rights - Art. 45 Freedom of movement

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