In Spain, candidates for being police agents have to be less than 35 years old. Is this a discrimination?
One of the candidates, who had been refused because of his age, claimed the hiring conditions were not respecting European directive 2000/78/EC of 2000 which prohibits any, direct or indirect, discrimination based on age.
The European Court of Justice in;Luxembourg has now validated the strict age conditions. In the contribution to Les Frontaliers website, in French language, Cross Borders further explains the argumentation of the European judges. Read more here.
