On Monday 8 September, an advocate general concluded at the European Court of Justice that an EU member state must not be allowed to automatically reject a request for the right to remain from someone with a non-EU nationality who looks after a child who is an EU citizen. The judge thus challenges behaviour current in the Netherlands.
This case (C-133/15) concerns eight mothers from outside the EU. Their young children have EU citizenship, as do their fathers. On the grounds that...