Op-Ed: “Muss Es Sein? Es Muss Sein! The Abuse of Fixed-Term Contracts in the Spanish Administration and its Difficult Compatibility with EU Law: AG Norkus’ Opinion in Obadal (C-418/24)”

There and Back Again

Allow this author to refer to Beethoven's last string quartet to express the hope that the Obadal (C-418/24) case will finally be the occasion for the Court of Justice to settle, once and for all, an issue that has been going on for more than ten years. Since 2014, there is a never-ending procedure under article 258 TFEU on this issue (INFR(2014)4334). Very recently, the General Court filed the petition for six procedures under Article 265 TFEU filed by the Spanish trade union CGT against the European Commission regarding this same problem (FETAP-CGT and Others v. Commission, T-453/25 to T-458/25).

It is difficult for a non-Spanish reader to understand this long road, which had its moment in the spotlig