Language Requirements: Integration Measures or Legal Barriers? Insights from X v Udlændingenævnet

• Autores: Cristina Milano
• Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 8, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 117-130
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In X v Udlændingenævnet, the Court of Justice dealt with a Danish provision requiring a Turkish worker, legally resident in Denmark, to successfully pass a language test as a necessary condition to provide his spouse with a residence permit for the purpose of family reunification. The Court claimed that said legislation constitutes a "new restriction" within the meaning of art. 13 of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council. This Insight addresses the main features of the preliminary judgment in X v Udlændingenævnet and offers an appraisal on the leading issues related to integration conditionality. Moving on from the Court's judgement, this Insight focuses on whether national measures imposing pre-departure language requirements may be conceived as tools for controlling immigration rather than effective integration instruments.