Brussels, 10/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice of the EU ruled (case C-270/13) on Wednesday 10 September that a member state - Italy, in the case in point - could not reserve the post of President of a Port Authority to its nationals alone. Not allowing nationals of other member states access to this position constitutes discrimination on the grounds of nationality, it ruled.
The Court had been asked by the Italian Council of State, which was hearing a case in which an Italian...