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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13090
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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Migration

Linking family reunification to passing language test is an unlawful “new restriction”, says CJEU

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...

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