Brussels, 09/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment made on Thursday 8 May, the European Court of Justice clarified a significant legal ambiguity for many cross-border Germans working in Luxembourg, with regard to whether German family benefit “Elterngeld” can be considered as a family benefit under Community law.
In the EU, if a citizen works in a different country from the one in which he resides, he is not able to accumulate family benefits to which he has a right in the two...