The Tjebbes Fail

• Autores: Dimitry Kochenov
• Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 4, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 319-336
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This Insight briefly analyses ten most significant untenable assumptions underlying the Court of Justice’s ruling in Tjebbes (judgment of 12 March 2019, case C-221/17 [GC]), where the Court departed from earlier case-law by essentially tolerating the annulment of EU citizenship ex lege as a result of a non-renewal of a Member State passport, thus introducing direct discrimination between different groups of EU citizens and legitimizing the treatment of law-abiding EU citizens worse than known terrorists and ISIS wives. EU citizenship has thus lost its proverbial ‘fundamental status’, downgraded to outright irrelevance for no tenable reason.