Brussels, 22/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - For reasons of public order and specifically in application of its national legislation on the abolition of the nobility in the name of the constitutional principle of equality of all citizens, a member state may refuse to recognise the name of one of its nationals which contains a title of nobility obtained in another member state.
That was the ruling delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU on 22 December in Case C-208/09. The Court was responding...