Brussels, 20/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - Member states have the right to refuse to pay welfare benefits to European passport-holders if they feel that these people have come to the country simply to receive benefits or to look for work, argued European Court of Justice judge Melchior Wathelet on Tuesday 20 May in case C-333/13 between two Romanians and the city of Leipzig in Germany.
The case was sent to the European Court of Justice in June 2013 and the opinion published by the judge will...