The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled (case C-541/15) that a member state can refuse to recognise automatically the birth name legally recovered by one of its nationals in another member state in which this national also has nationality, if the national law of the first state has arrangements that enable this recognition to be requested.
The Court was questioned by the German legal system about the case of Mr Mircea Freitag, who was born in Romania, the legitimate son of the Pavels (the...