Judgment_paragraph 18 · Relu Adrian Coman and Others v Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări and Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (C-673/16)

18It is the Court’s established case-law that the purpose of Directive 2004/38 is to facilitate the exercise of the primary and individual right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, which is conferred directly on citizens of the Union by Article 21(1) TFEU, and that one of the objectives of that directive is to strengthen that right (judgments of 12 March 2014, O and B, C‑456/12, EU:C:2014:135, paragraph 35; of 18 December 2014, McCarthy and Others, C‑202/13, EU:C:2014:2450, paragraph 31; and of 14 November 2017, Lounes, C‑165/16, EU:C:2017:862, paragraph 31).