In a ruling handed down on Tuesday 8 May (case C-82/16), the European Court of Justice stated that requests for family reunification must be taken into account even if the national of a third country, a family member of a European citizen, is subject to a ban on entry into the territory.
Furthermore, the existence of a relationship of dependency between the non-EU national and the European citizen must be assessed on a case by case basis. The same applies for the grounds of...