Judgment_paragraph 31 · Land Baden-Württemberg v Panagiotis Tsakouridis (C-145/09)

31While recitals 23 and 24 in the preamble to Directive 2004/38 certainly refer to special protection for persons who are genuinely integrated into the host Member State, in particular when they were born there and have spent all their life there, the fact remains that, in view of the wording of Article 28(3) of that directive, the decisive criterion is whether the Union citizen has lived in that Member State for the 10 years preceding the expulsion decision.

Land Baden-Württemberg v Panagiotis Tsakouridis (C-145/09)

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