Immigration 'bounty hunters' provided with outdated information by Home Office - people with valid permits ordered to leave the UK

Immigration 'bounty hunters' provided with outdated information by Home Office - people with valid permits ordered to leave the UK

Immigration 'bounty hunters' provided with outdated information by Home Office - people with valid permits ordered to leave the UK

Outsourcing tasks normally assumed by government agents has its limits and the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has, once again learnt that this method of making savings can result in innocent victims being wrongly targeted.
Greece: only 6.3% of those foreigners taken to a police station for verification of identity proved to be without a valid residence permit

Greece: only 6.3% of those foreigners taken to a police station for verification of identity proved to be without a valid residence permit

Greece: only 6.3% of those foreigners taken to a police station for verification of identity proved to be without a valid residence permit

On 1st January 2013, the police informed that a total of 65,767 foreigners were apprehended and taken to a police station for questioning and verification of identity since the operation code-named Xenios Zeus was launched in August 2012. Only 4,145 of them, or 6.3%, eventually proved to be without a valid residence permit.
More than fivefold increase in financial grant to rejected asylum-seekers who accept to leave Denmark voluntarily

More than fivefold increase in financial grant to rejected asylum-seekers who accept to leave Denmark voluntarily

More than fivefold increase in financial grant to rejected asylum-seekers who accept to leave Denmark voluntarily

On 19 December 2012, the Government announced a more than five-fold increase in the financial grant to rejected asylum-seekers who agree to leave Denmark voluntarily.
Malta: discrimination practised by real estate agents is ingrained and institutional

Malta: discrimination practised by real estate agents is ingrained and institutional

Malta: discrimination practised by real estate agents is ingrained and institutional

A project co-funded by the EU, entitled “I’m not racist, but…”, to look into prejudice in housing in Malta has revealed shocking levels of discrimination and racial abuse.
Belgium Constitutional Council rejects application calling for annulment of anti-burqa law

Belgium Constitutional Council rejects application calling for annulment of anti-burqa law

Belgium Constitutional Council rejects application calling for annulment of anti-burqa law

On 6 December 2012, the Constitutional Court rejected the application calling for the annulment of the so-called anti-burqa law of 1st June 2011.

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European Court of Human Rights: Must an asylum-seeker whose claims of torture are not in doubt be able to prove that s/he will tortured again upon return?

In a Chamber ruling handed down on 6 December 2012, five of the seven judges on the panel concluded that the expulsion of an Ethiopian asylum-seeker, D.N.W., claiming to have been a deacon in the Orthodox Coptic Church in his home country, would not amount to a violation of Article 2 or 3 of the Convention (application no. 29946/10). Read more

Sweden’s Centre Party calls for open borders

On 18 December 2012, as part of its new party programme, the Centre Party, a junior partner in the government coalition, called for open borders, allowing anyone wanting to go to Sweden to be able to do so. Read more

Spain: 64% of respondents in opinion survey oppose denying free health care to sick undocumented migrants

In an opinion poll carried out by Metroscopia at the request of the daily "El Pais" (23.12.2012), 64% of respondents said that they were against the Government's decree of denying free health care to needy undocumented migrants who are ill. Read more

‘Doctors with Borders’ for Greeks only

On 5 December 2012, the far-right Chryssi Avgi party launched its own "medical charity", giving it a name that is quite the opposite of the well-known and wellrespected humanitarian organisation initially launched in France, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF - "Doctors without Borders"). The far-right's "Doctors with Borders" association purports to provide medical services exclusively to Greek citizen. Read more

Denmark – Citizenship test under previous government to be replaced by a new, modern one

On 3rd December 2012, the citizenship test which was introduced by the previous centre-right government that depended on the support of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DFP) took place for the last time, with the participation of well over 2,500 candidates applying for Danish citizenship. The new test, the contents of which will be announced in January 2013, will focus more on societal issues, instead of Denmark's history, the royal family, and small Danish towns. Read more

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