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( Case C- 291/05) ; [2007] ECR I – 10719, a case involving family reunification, the Grand Chamber stated: “ [37]
Barriers to family reunification are therefore liable to undermine the right to free movement which the nationals of the Member States have under Community law …. ” In [44] it repeated the familiar theme of eliminating obstacles to the exercise of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaties. One of the Court’s more recent major pronouncements on A rticles 21 and 45 TFEU and the Citizens D ire ctive is contained in Cases C-456/12 and C- 457/12,