Brussels, 10/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - A member state may impose criminal penalties for aiding illegal immigration when persons who have infiltrated EU territory, and who are nationals of non-member countries, hold visas fraudulently obtained but not yet annulled.
Such was the substance of the preliminary ruling delivered on Tuesday 10 April by the EU Court of Justice (Case C-83/12 PPU), in response to a question by the Federal Court of Justice, Germany. A Vietnamese national was prosecuted...