The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), in a judgment published on Thursday 22 December (case C-279/21), ruled that the Danish legislation, by making family reunification conditional on passing an examination on knowledge of the Danish language, constitutes a “new illegal restriction”.
The case concerns a Turkish worker who arrived in Denmark in 2015. The latter submitted an application for a residence permit to the Danish authorities for family reunification with his spouse, a Turkish...