Migration News Sheet Summary June 2010

Issued on 03/06/2010

Summary

Every month the Migration Policy Group produces the Migration News Sheet, an information bulletin on immigration, refugees and ethnic minorities with updates on migration law and policies, news on irregular migration, asylum, racism and discrimination at the EU and across countries in Europe.

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Below is a small selection of the articles available in the June 2010 issue.

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MNS Summary June 2010

Migration Policies/Law

EU: No progress on Czech visa question at EU-Canada summit

EU: Proposal to move Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina to the positive visa list

ECJ: Identity checks near the internal borders of Schengen Member States – European Court grants requests for accelerated procedure

ECJ: Charging Turkish nationals up to around 27 times more than to EU nationals for issuing residence permits or their renewal violates standstill and anti-discrimination clauses of EU agreement with Turkey

DENMARK: Danish Human Rights Institute strongly criticises new points system for a residence permit

IRELAND: Suspected sham marriages – non-EU family members will no longer have immediate right to work

SWITZERLAND: Having a child fathered by a Swiss national is no guarantee against expulsion

Irregular Migration

EU: New FRONTEX guidelines to be referred to the European Court – No FRONTEX operation off Malta this year

EU: Commissioner MALMSTRÖM’s opinion that the registration of irregular migrants in Spanish municipalities violates “return Directive” is criticised as “too strict and narrow”

TURKEY-GREECE: Ankara promises Greece to readmit at least 1,000 irregular migrants per year

ITALY: Rome donates two vessels to Egypt to combat irregular migrationg

Asylum/Refugees

EU: Efforts to reach a common EU asylum policy is now limited to shifting responsibility to front-line States and neighbouring third countries

ECJ: Can an asylum-seeker appeal against a decision to process his claim under the accelerated procedure?

ECHR: Rome expels another Tunisian in defiance of interim measures requested by the European Court of Human Rights

ECHR: Slovakia defies the European Court of Human Rights and ignores a request for interim measures in favour of the Algerian Mustapha LAPSI

DENMARK: Repatriation premium has more than quadrupled but number of “volunteers” has fallen

FINLAND: Accelerated procedure for EU nationals in Finland leads to sharp drop in the number of Bulgarians and Romanians seeking asylum

SPAIN: Youth who died while trying to leave Ceuta clandestinely had been admitted into the asylum procedure

SWITZERLAND: Switzerland resumes forced repatriations by charter flights after suspension of two months

UK: End to detention of asylum-seeking children

UK: Supreme Court in the UK to decide on whether homosexuals should be denied asylum since they can avoid persecution by behaving discreetly

 
Racism/Discrimination

MALTA: Mock exercise in Malta calling for the sterilisation of immigrants reveals deep and widespread negative sentiments towards immigrants

SWEDEN: Discrimination verdict against top hotel for its treatment of a Roma client is upheld

UK: Teacher, member of a far-right party, who posted insulting remarks against asylum-seekers, immigrants and homosexuals on the Internet is cleared of wrongdoing

Other Issues

BELGIUM: First European country to ban the burqa

BELGIUM: Supreme Court gives green light to prohibit teachers from wearing headscarves

BELGIUM: Court rejects appeal by a Muslim woman fired for wearing a veil at work

FRANCE: Negative opinion of the Supreme Administrative Court on the anti-burqa Bill is criticised by leading members of the ruling party

FRANCE: French police express concerns over applying the anti-burqa law

FRANCE: High fertility and failing parents, especially those in polygamous relationships, contribute to crime

GERMANY: New survey confirms that Turks are the worst integrated group

GERMANY: New study suggests that relationship between ethnic Germans and immigrants is much better that commonly believed

NETHERLANDS: Costs of non-Western immigrants: independent research institute puts the final annual bill at 7.2 billion Euros

SPAIN: Calls to ban the Muslim veil is gaining momentum in Spain

SPAIN: First town to ban the burqa

SWEDEN: Study suggests substantial improvement of Swedish attitudes towards immigrants

SWITZERLAND: Burqa ban will have the support of a majority

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