The notion of ‘spouse’, solely for the purpose of granting a derived right of residence to a third-country national, includes same-sex spouses, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a judgement returned on Tuesday 5 June (case C-673/16).
A Romanian national married a US national in Brussels in 2010 under Belgian law. At the end of 2012, the two spouses began procedures to settle permanently in Romania. The application for a residence permit of more than three months for the US...