Agrégateur de flux

Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Citizenship of the Union
A third-country national may, as the parent of a minor child who is an EU citizen, rely on a derived right of residence in the EU

Chavez-Vilchez és társai
Uniós polgárság  
Valamely nem uniós ország állampolgára az európai polgársággal rendelkező kiskorú gyermek szülőjeként származékos tartózkodási jogra tarthat igényt az Unióban

Chavez-Vilchez e.a.
Citoyenneté européenne
Un ressortissant d’un pays non UE peut, en sa qualité de parent d’un enfant mineur possédant la citoyenneté européenne, se prévaloir d’un droit de séjour dérivé dans l’Union

Chavez-Vilchez u.a.
Unionsbürgerschaft
Ein Staatsangehöriger eines Nicht-EU-Landes kann als Elternteil eines minderjährigen Kindes, das die Unionsbürgerschaft besitzt, ein abgeleitetes Aufenthaltsrecht in der Union geltend machen

Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Citizenship of the Union
A third-country national may, as the parent of a minor child who is an EU citizen, rely on a derived right of residence in the EU

Bulgarie : nationalisme et démagogie au programme des élections du 26 mars
Bulgarie : « bons entrepreneurs » contre « oligarques », une fausse distinction
Mondialisation et dumping social : quand la Chine délocalise en Bulgarie
Bulgarie : au fond de la mine, un drame du « capitalisme sauvage »
Économie : les revenus des Bulgares sont en baisse
Bulgarie : élections, immolations, manipulations et misère sociale

/ Bilten, Bulgarie, Economie, Société

Selon le président de la commission d'investiture d'En Marche !, l'ex-Premier ministre Manuel Valls, qui réclamait le soutien du mouvement pour les législatives de juin, "n'est pas à ce jour dans le critère d’acceptation de sa demande".

«A ce jour, il n'est pas dans les critères d'acceptation de sa demande d'investiture.» L'affront continue pour Manuel Valls qui, mardi, a osé franchir le pas d'En marche mais qui trouve, ce mercredi encore,...

As government readies for a decision on whether to send the Montenegrin border agreement to parliament, locals are tiring of the whole issue.

In March this year the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the European Union member states are not obliged, under EU law, to grant humanitarian visas to people who wish to enter their territory to apply for asylum. However, member states are free to do so on the basis of their national laws.

The background for the ruling was the case of a Syrian family challenging the refusal by Belgian authorities to grant them humanitarian visas at the Belgian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

Applications for humanitarian visas can indeed be made at an EU member state embassy in a non-EU country. These visas then allow asylum-seekers to legally access the state in question to lodge a formal asylum application.

The decision on the substance of the asylum application is made on that state’s territory. This practice enables asylum-seekers to reach the EU safely and legally without having to put their lives at risk by crossing the Mediterranean Sea in unseaworthy vessels and paying unscrupulous smugglers enormous amounts of money.

“Let’s face the facts: people will continue to come to Europe whether we try to shut them out or not”

There are currently no EU schemes for humanitarian visas per se. But under the EU Visa Code Regulation, which sets out the procedures for issuing short-stay and airport transit visas within the Schengen area, visas can be issued on “humanitarian grounds” at the discretion of individual states should the admissibility requirements for a visa application not be fulfilled.

Beyond the Visa Code provisions, member states can also issue national long-stay visas. But the concept of “humanitarian grounds” is undefined in the EU law and leaves it up to the individual member states to decide when ‒ or if ‒ they consider it necessary to issue a visa under such terms. In the majority of cases, as was the case with the Syrian family, this means that member states decide not to grant such a visa, neither under the Visa Code provisions nor under national schemes.

As the lead MEP (shadow rapporteur) on reform of the Visa Code Regulation for the Greens / European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, I had hoped that the ECJ ruling would shed light on this issue, advancing the negotiations between the Parliament and national governments in the Council.

The process of reforming the Regulation has been going on for more than two years, but is now halted due to differing points of view on whether or not to include more specific provisions on humanitarian visas in the Visa Code. While the Council has argued that humanitarian visas have no place in the Visa Code due to the short-stay nature of visas, the European Parliament has tirelessly claimed the opposite.

“By securing safe and legal channels into the EU through humanitarian visas, we are saving lives that otherwise would be put at risk at sea”

I was disappointed but not surprised to learn that the court had kept status quo. The ruling does not encourage member states to take a bigger responsibility for people fleeing war and persecution, and it does not prevent refugees from taking lethal journeys to arrive on EU territory.

Let’s face the facts: people will continue to come to Europe whether we try to shut them out or not.

By securing safe and legal channels into the EU through humanitarian visas, as well as through labour migration, family reunification and academic programmes, we are saving lives that otherwise would be put at risk at sea. My conviction is that we need a fully-fledged EU humanitarian visa scheme and unified procedures for granting such visa applications. The ruling from the ECJ only confirms the need to quickly put in place common rules at the EU level.

In my own country, Sweden, politicians have realised the urgent need to create more and better legal avenues of entry into the country. That is why the government, with the Green Party as a coalition partner, has launched an inquiry into this issue. The result of the inquiry’s report is expected by the end of 2017, and I hope that the findings will not only help to improve the Swedish migration framework but provide inspiration for a reform of the EU-wide polices on legal immigration.

IMAGE CREDIT: CC/Flickr – UNHCR Photo Unit

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Opposition politicians and experts accuse President Hashim Thaci of attacking the EU to divert public attention from his own political failures.

The Macedonian Public Prosecution is trying to downplay the recent violence in parliament by charging the alleged attackers with the mildest possible criminal offences, observers fear.

Bosnia's deficit-crippled budgets increasingly struggle to cover social benefits and pensions, yet they still put aside millions to generously subsidise the country's numerous political parties.

Entre le Kosovo et le Monténégro, une fuyante frontière
Kosovo : la frontière avec le Monténégro fait toujours débat
Entre Kosovo et Monténégro, une frontière qui ne passe pas
Entre le Monténégro et le Kosovo, une frontière contestée
Kosovo : l'unité de l'opposition vole en éclats

/ Kosovo, Relations régionales, Politique intérieure, Courrier des Balkans, Kosovo crise politique

Entre le Kosovo et le Monténégro, une fuyante frontière
Kosovo : la frontière avec le Monténégro fait toujours débat
Entre Kosovo et Monténégro, une frontière qui ne passe pas
Entre le Monténégro et le Kosovo, une frontière contestée
Kosovo : l'unité de l'opposition vole en éclats

/ Kosovo, Relations régionales, Politique intérieure, Courrier des Balkans, Kosovo crise politique

La France insoumise a décliné, mardi, l'offre d'alliance du Parti communiste pour les législatives de juin. Le mouvement de Jean-Luc Mélenchon refuse "des combinaisons sans principe" et impute l'échec des discussions à son ex-allié.

A kormány a fő fegyverével átértelmezné az uniós jogalkotást, de akad megfontolandó érve és egy titkos fegyvere is.

Le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, António Guterres, et le Conseil de sécurité ont condamné fermement l'attaque perpétrée par des éléments présumés anti-Balaka contre un convoi de la Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en République centrafricaine (MINUSCA) le 8 mai, sur l'axe Rafai-Bangassou, dans le sud-est de la République centrafricaine.