When a binational EU citizen has had a change of forename, surname or gender recorded in the civil status register of one of the Member States of which they are a national, their country of second nationality must recognise and record these changes, said the Court’s Advocate General Richard de la Tour in his opinion published on Tuesday 7 May.
He was responding to a request for an opinion from a Bucharest court concerning a Romanian citizen who claimed that his Romanian birth certificate...