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European Court of Justice has consistently refused to award EU law protection.
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The European Court of Justice has consistently refused to award EU law protection to cases it defines as purely internal to a Member State (Maduro, 2000). This non-involvement by the ECJ has brought about numerous problems and criticism. Maduro, (2000) suggests that the concept of purely internal situations has been mainly used to justify the lack of protection granted by EU law to numerous cases of reverse discrimination where a state does not extend to its own nationals the same treatment it is required by EU law to award to national of Member States. The ECJ first established its approach to reverse discrimination and purely internal situations in the cases of Knoors1, Auer2 and Saunders3. Purely internal situations were first given voice in Knoors but were applied foremost in Saunders. It was held by the ECJ that there was no factor connecting Saunders with any of the situations envisaged by...
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