Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 10/10/2013

Subject: The Court affirmed that Articles 20 TFEU and 21 TFEU do not preclude a Member State from refusing to allow a third-country national to reside in its territory, where that third-country national has sole responsibility for her minor children who are citizens of the European Union, and who have resided with her in that Member State since their birth, without possessing the nationality of that Member State and making use of their right to freedom of movement, in so far as those Union citizens do not satisfy the conditions set out in Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, or such a refusal does not deprive those citizens of effective enjoyment of the substance of the rights conferred by virtue of the status of European Union citizenship.

Parties: Adzo Domenyo Alokpa, Jarel Moudoulou, Eja Moudoulou

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

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