The best interest of the child in the context of transnational movements : handbook on techniques of judicial interaction in the application of the EU charter

Abstract

This Training Handbook focuses on two (macro-)sets of situations in which the relevance of EU law is triggered by the circumstance that children or their parents are (or have been) on the move. Attention is paid in particular to the contribution of EU law (1) in cases concerning family reunification or family unity, and (2) in the context of migration and asylum law. The Handbook begins with a preliminary assessment of the provisions in the EUCFR potentially relevant in child-related cases. The scope and content of EU primary and secondary law concerning the fields chosen are then reconstructed. Then, the relevant case law of the European Court of Justice and of the Member States in the project is collected, classified and examined, also in terms of its interrelation with ECtHR jurisprudence.