Brussels, 05/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - A member state should be able to ban a citizen from exercising his/her civic rights for life, so long as this ban is not irreversible.
Such is the view of Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalon, who submitted his opinion to the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 4 June. The case (C-650/13) relates to a French national who was found guilty in 1988 of murder and who was banned from exercising his civic rights (active and passive voting rights) for...