Migration News Sheet Summary August 2010

Issued on 11/08/2010

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 August 2010 issue.

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MNS Summary August 2010

Migration Policies/Law

EU: Proposal for a directive on seasonal employment

EU: Proposal for a directive on intra-corporate temporary transfer of non-EU skilled workers

DENMARK: Danish People’s Party wants to raise to 28 the age for foreign spouses wanting to reside in Denmark

FRANCE: French President wants to withdraw French citizenship from those of foreign origin who threaten the life of an official

FRANCE-ROMANIA: Paris welcomes Bucharest’s decision to nominate a junior minister for the reinsertion of members of the Roma minority

GERMANY: Intelligence tests for immigrants

UK: Immigration Minister warns British workers that their refusal to do some menial jobs cannot continue

Irregular Migration

SPAIN: Madrid and Rabat reaffirm continued cooperation to combat illegal immigration

Asylum/Refugees

EU: Strong opposition from some Member States to the European Commission’s new proposals on asylum

EU: European Commission considers agreement between Italy and Libya instituting the “push-back” policy to be “perfectly in conformity with EU law”

ECJ: Irish High Court judge refers Dublin cases concerning Greece to the European Court of Justice

ECHR: Unanimous chamber judgment finding Malta guilty of unlawful detention and absence of effective remedy in case of Algerian asylum-seeker

ECHR: Switzerland guilty of Article 8 violation for keeping two rejected asylum-seeking couples apart for five years

ECHR: Turkey guilty of Article 3 violations for holding refugees for three months in police headquarters’ basement

ECHR: Greece found to have violated Article 3 and 5 for arbitrary detention under inhuman conditions of Palestinian asylum-seeker

ECHR: European Court unanimously blocks two more expulsions – a third case is struck off because applicant has disappeared

FRANCE: French Supreme Administrative Court amends list of safe countries of origin

GERMANY: Five major firms in Germany agree to accept anonymous CVs in job applications

GREECE: UNHCR supports hunger strike action by two Iranians

ITALY: Foreign Minister Franco FRATTINI assures that all is well with 245 Eritrean refugees in Libya

MALTA: Government rejects criticisms of army’s handling of sea rescue of 55 asylum-seekers – 27 were taken to Libya, including pregnant wife of a man taken to Malta

SWITZERLAND: Refugee status to be withdrawn from some 2,000 Balkan refugees

SWITZERLAND: Switzerland wants to send Chinese organ whistleblower back to Italy, his first country of asylum

UK: Supreme Court rules that compelling homosexuals to hide their sexual preference amounts to denial of a fundamental right

UK: Supreme Court rules that people applying for asylum for the second time are covered by the right to work provision of an EU Directive

Racism/Discrimination

FRANCE: At last an end to discriminatory pensions paid out to soldiers having fought in the French army who are now foreigners

Other Issues

DENMARK: Member of ruling Liberal Party suggests paying immigrants half of the ongoing rate to encourage integration

FRANCE: Constitutional Council to examine anti-burqa law

GERMANY: German programme offering Islamic radicals the possibility to renounce extremism

ITALY: Minister of Interior declares war against Chinese criminal gangs

NETHERLANDS: Very disturbing levels of unemployment among youths of immigrant origin

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