Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/22/2021

Subject: The Court affirmed that a Union citizen who has been the subject of an expulsion decision cannot enjoy a new right of residence in the territory of the host Member State until he or she has genuinely and effectively terminated his or her residence there. Such an expulsion decision cannot be deemed to have been complied with in full merely because that Union citizen has physically left that territory within the period prescribed in that decision for his or her voluntary departure

Parties: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (Effets d’une décision d’éloignement)

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

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