EU Threatens Members Over Immigrant Rights
BRUSSELS, January 20, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The European Commission threatened on Friday, January 20, firm action against European countries failing to grant rights to long-term immigrants from countries outside the 25-nation bloc.
"We will start infringement procedures in the coming months, if these rights are still not implemented," Friso Roscam Abbing, European Commission justice and home affairs spokesman, was quoted as saying by Reuters. EU members agreed in November 2003 to give third-country nationals the right to five-year residency and work permits after they have lived in an EU country for five years. The Commission estimates about 10 million legal residents in the EU would benefit from the legislation, also allowing those holding five-year resident status in one member state to live in another. The deadline for implementing the EU rules is set for Monday, January 23.
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