All EU Rights Publications
EU Rights in the Spotlight – May 2018
The EU Rights in the Spotlight section for this month features two ECJ judgments and an opinion affecting requests for family reunification, enhanced protection against expulsion of EU citizens and the right to entry and residence of non-EU partners when…
ECAS Signs Letter to EU Leaders to Encourage EU Mobile Citizens to Vote in Local Elections
Yesterday, ECAS and the Migration Policy Group (MPG) have jointly submitted a letter to EU leaders Presidents Jean-Claude Juncker, Luca Jahier, Antonio Tajani, and Karl-Heinz Lambertz encouraging them to help raise awareness of the municipal elections in October 2018, and encourage…
Press Release: Pension, entry and residence rights are key concerns in the 2017 Annual Trends Report
Topics related to social security rights continued to be the most problematic for EU citizens. Enquiries related to residence rights increased by 3.4% compared to 2016. These largely concerned non-EU family members who are still experiencing difficulties when moving to…
Obstacles to Entry and Residence Rights Still a Burden to EU Mobile Citizens
ECAS’ latest report entitled “Freedom of Movement in the EU: A Look Behind The Curtain” looks at the difficulties EU citizens and their family members face with regard to entry and residence rights in another EU country. Freedom of movement…
EU Rights in the Spotlight – March 2018
The EU Rights in the Spotlight section for this month features three ECJ rulings affecting the right of national courts to disregard social security certificates obtained fraudulently, the compensation for delays in the case of connecting flights and public access…
ECAS Activities of 2017: A Review
The harder the challenge, the stronger the outcome Over the past year political turmoil has posed a great deal of uncertainty not to mention significant challenges for the issue of citizens’ rights throughout Europe. Despite these crisis-driven times the length…
Your Europe Advice Facebook Chat reaches 1.2 Million People
On 26 February, legal experts from the Your Europe Advice service, which ECAS manages on behalf of the European Commission, took part in a Facebook chat on setting up a business in another EU country. Over 2300 users followed the…
FAIR EU: A Citizen-Centric Approach to Political Participation and Free Movement Rights
On 2 February 2018 ECAS launched FAIR EU (Fostering Awareness, Inclusion and Recognition of EU Mobile Citizens’ Political Rights), a project aimed at the successful inclusion of EU mobile citizens in their host EU country’s civic and political life. The project aims…
EU Rights Clinic Calls for Further Protections of Citizens’ Rights in Phase 2 of Brexit Negotiations
The EU Rights Clinic has submitted a letter to President of the European Council Donald Tusk calling on the Council to instruct the European Commission to continue negotiations on citizens’ rights in the second phase of Brexit negotiations and to…
EU Rights in the Spotlight – January 2018
The EU Rights in the Spotlight section for this month features one ECJ opinion and one ruling affecting, respectively, the freedom of residence of EU citizens and their spouses of the same sex and the status of ‘self-employed person’ for the purposes…