Definition
Reverse discrimination (under EU law) (Ro: discriminare inversă, Fr.: discrimination à rebours, n.f., Gr.: αντίστροφη δυσμενής διάκριση (Δίκαιο της Ε.Ε.), Cz.: pozitivní diskriminace, Cr.: obrnuta diskriminacija/pozitivna diskriminacija) (See also: free movement of workers, purely internal situations, right to residence, subsidiarity principle) = the situation when the national law of the EU Member State provides a worse treatment under EU law for its own citizens or its domestic products, than for other EU or non-EU citizens/goods.
Useful links
Legislation
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:12012E/TXT&from=EN - Consolidated Version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Part Two, Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union [English]
Case Law
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&jur=C,T,F&num=C-34/09&td=ALL - Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v. Office national de l’Emploi (ONEm), Case C-34/09, 2011
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&jur=C,T,F&num=C-434/09&td=ALL - McCarthy v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Case C-434/09, 2011
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&jur=C,T,F&num=256/11&td=ALL - Murat Dereci and Others v. Bundesministerium für Inneres, Case 256/11, 2011
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichJuriAdmin.do?oldAction=rechJuriAdmin&idTexte=CETATEXT000019649357&fastReqId=556889955&fastPos=1 - Compagnie des architectes en chef des monuments historiques, req. N° 310146 du Conseil d'État, 2008
Online Publications
http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/ssh-cdie/documents/2012-4-J_-Y_Carlier.pdf - Carlier, Jean-Yves, 2012, Non-discrimination et étrangers, Université catholique de Louvain, CeDIE Working Papers, no. 2012/4
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=954242 – Ritter, Cyril, 2006, Purely Internal Situations, Reverse Discrimination, Guimont, Dzodzi and Article 234, Social Science Research Network
http://www.um.edu.mt/europeanstudies/books/CD_MESA09/pdf/atryfonidou.pdf - Tryfonidou, Alina, Purely Internal Situations and Reverse Discrimination in a Citizens' Europe: Time To 'Reverse' Reverse Discrimination?, Institute for European Studies, Jean Monnet Projects
http://www.euce.org/eusa/2011/papers/1b_maas.pdf - Maas, Willem, 2011, Fundamental Rights and Reverse Discrimination - Presented at the European Union Studies Association conference, March 3-5, Boston
http://www.yorku.ca/maas/Maas2009a.pdf - Maas, Willem, 2009, Unrespected, Unequal, Hollow?: Contingent Citizenship and Reversible Rights in the European Union, Columbia Journal of European Law 15, no. 2: 270-271
http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=7281&langId=en - Lenaerts, Koen, 2011, 'Civis europaeus sum': from the cross-border link to the status of citizen of the Union, Online Journal on free movement of workers within the European Union, No. 3
http://employment.findlaw.com/employment-discrimination/reverse-discrimination.html - Reverse Discrimination, Findlaw.com
Publications
Tryfonidou, Alina, 2009, Reverse Discrimination in EC Law (European Monographs), Alphen aan den Rijn, Kluwer Law International
Morris, R., 2011, European Citizenship and the Right to Move Freely: Internal Situations, Reverse Discrimination and Fundamental Rights, 1-2 MJ (Special Edition) 179, Alphen aan den Rijn, Kluwer Law International
By Diana Buzilă