In the procedures for selecting the staff for the European Union institutions, differences in treatment based on language are not allowed, in principle, but they are permissible provided that they meet actual needs and are justified in advance, the European Court of Justice ruled in the judgments on Tuesday 26 March (cases C-377/16 and C-621/16 P).
Case C-377/16. Spain is asking for the annulment, on the grounds of discrimination based on language, of a call for applications launched by...