In a decision made on Thursday 31 May (Case C-335/17), the European Court of Justice stated that the notion of ‘rights of access’ includes the rights of access of grandparents to their grandchildren.
Ms Valcheva, a Bulgarian national, is the maternal grandmother of a child, who, since his parents’ divorce, has resided in Greece with his father, a Greek national. Having unsuccessfully sought the support of the Greek authorities, Ms Valcheva applied to the Bulgarian courts for a...