Illustrate the accuracy of the above statement with particular reference to Directive 2004/38 and the relevant cases.

Question Four

Advise the following as to their respective EU rights as a result of the following (imaginary) events:

a) Alec, a Polish national, who wants to move from Warsaw to work part-time as a plumber in Bulgaria as he is fed up with working as a coach tour operator in Poland. He wants to take Charles, his Guyanese male partner of five years, with him to Bulgaria. The couple have been in a registered partnership in Poland since 2011.

b) Flora, a Portuguese citizen, who has been refused a job as a law lecturer at London Cosmopolitan University as her English skills are minimal. She was also told that even if she was fluent in English, such jobs belong to the public service, so are reserved for UK citizens.

c) Rafael, a Croatian citizen, who intends to apply for permanent residency in the UK in June 2014. Rafael has been living and working legally in London since 1st January 2009. The UK authorities have told him he can only do so at the end of the five year period since Croatia’s 1 July 2013 entry into membership of the EU (i.e. from 1 July 2018).

d) Shawn, a Norwegian national, living and working in Cardiff. This morning Shawn received a deportation order from the UK Home Office requiring him to leave the UK immediately. Shawn’s laptop was confiscated by the police yesterday and it revealed plans to blow up Buckingham Palace next week as ‘the Royals are all freeloaders’. Shawn was a leading member of the ‘People Against the Norwegian Monarchy’ (‘PANM’), an outlawed terrorist group when he lived in Oslo three years ago.

e) Swapna, a British national, who wants to move from Birmingham to Belfast (Northern Ireland) so that her Indian parents from Mumbai can join her there with a view to moving back to Great Britain as soon as possible.

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