Below is a selection of the headlines in the December issue

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Migration Policies

British MEPs calling for better sharing of police information on convicted EU nationals

Case-law established in Ruiz-Zambrano does not imply right of family reunion for third-country nationals if sponsoring EU family member has not exercised free movement

French Parliament opposed to European Commission’s proposal on internal border checks

Several Swiss cantons apply tough policy on expulsion of foreigners depending on welfare

Age limit for couples wanting to live together in the UK has been put back to 18 years

Minimum income for eligibility to sponsor for family reunion in the UK will rise very substantially

Irregular Migration

Influx of migrants in Greece continues unabated, Member State officials participating in FRONTEX frustrated with Greek authorities

Asylum/Refugees

Swiss Federal Minister of Justice wants to copy Dutch refugee-status determination procedure

French authorities ‘caught red-handed’ preventing lawyers from assisting asylum-seekers at Roissy Airport

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children entering Greece are very young

Joint efforts on the part of Nordic States to organise repatriation of Afghan teenagers

Compromises reached with Green Party in Sweden on the EU’s return Directive

UK Government has lost track of 124,000 cases of asylum-seekers and immigrants

Racism/Discrimination

Netherlands: 77% of employment agencies prepared to practice discrimination when requested

Estonia: Africans banned from marathon. Discrimination or concern about illegal entry?

Integration/Diversity

Niqab-wearing women in France fined €140 for wearing outfits concealing their faces

Belgium: Islam the religion of one out of five inhabitants in the capital of Brussels

Luxembourg: Education Ministry proposes to allow Muslim pupils wear a headscarf

Netherlands: Winner of EU’s literature prize fails Dutch citizenship test

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