Brussels, 17/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - Member states cannot require someone over 21 from a third country to prove, in order to be considered a dependant member of the family of an EU citizen in the context of a request for a residency permit, that he or she has genuinely tried unsuccessfully to find work or to obtain a subsistence allowance in his country of origin.
In a ruling on 17 January 2014 in case C-423/12, the European Court of Justice answered a question from the Stockholm court of...