Monitoring References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
Field of law
6 case reports
Since March 2025 Italian law treats people born abroad with another nationality as never having acquired Italian citizenship by descent, unless they meet narrow conditions. The Corte costituzionale considers that compatible with EU law, but has asked the Court of Justice anyway: do Article 9 TEU and Article 20 TFEU preclude the rule?
Latvia's air navigation provider, a state-owned company, requires its air traffic controllers to hold security clearance for classified information — which in practice excludes nationals of other Member States. A licensed EU controller challenged the exclusion. Latvia's Supreme Court asks whether the post falls within the public service exception, and whether airspace security in a 'complex geopolitical context' can justify it.
A Sofia hospital trains a doctor to specialist level and binds them to five more years, on pain of repaying every training cost plus two months' salary. The Sofiyski rayonen sad asks whether that is a restriction on free movement, an unfair consumer term, or an element of coercion under Article 5 of the Charter.
By judgment of 23 January 2018 (ECLI:EU:C:2018:26) the Court held that the European Firearms Pass provisions of the Firearms Directive do not apply to the territory of Gibraltar, as the Directive's travel-facilitation rules concern the free movement of…
By judgment of 18 May 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:391) the Court held that refusing to issue an RPVA secure-network dongle to a lawyer registered at a bar in another Member State restricts the freedom to provide services, and is justified only where denying…
By judgment of 18 July 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:562) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 45 TFEU must be interpreted as not precluding legislation of a Member State, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, under which the…