Brussels, 24/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - National or regional legislation which treats third-country nationals who are long-term residents differently from EU citizens in allocation of funds for housing benefits contravenes EU law.
That is the substance of the ruling delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU on Tuesday 24 April (case C-571/10) in response to the Tribunale di Bolzano which asked the Court whether an Italian mechanism for allocating the funds for housing benefit - which...