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去る７月２５日に欧州司法裁判所が下した判決が、デンマーク国内で大きな反響を呼んでいます。判決はこれです。

http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&newform=newform&Submit=Submit&alljur=alljur&jurcdj=jurcdj&jurtpi=jurtpi&jurtfp=jurtfp&alldocrec=alldocrec&docj=docj&docor=docor&docop=docop&docav=docav&docsom=docsom&docinf=docinf&alldocnorec=alldocnorec&docnoj=docnoj&docnoor=docnoor&typeord=ALLTYP&allcommjo=allcommjo&affint=affint&affclose=affclose&numaff=&ddatefs=&mdatefs=&ydatefs=&ddatefe=&mdatefe=&ydatefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=200

>1.      Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC precludes legislation of a Member State which requires a national of a non-member country who is the spouse of a Union citizen residing in that Member State but not possessing its nationality to have previously been lawfully resident in another Member State before arriving in the host Member State, in order to benefit from the provisions of that directive.

2.      Article 3(1) of Directive 2004/38 must be interpreted as meaning that a national of a non-member country who is the spouse of a Union citizen residing in a Member State whose nationality he does not possess and who accompanies or joins that Union citizen benefits from the provisions of that directive, irrespective of when and where their marriage took place and of how the national of a non-member country entered the host Member State.

判決文を読むのが面倒臭い人は、ＥＵ業界紙のこちらの記事を眺めてください。

http://euobserver.com/843/26557

>A recent EU court immigration ruling is causing headaches for the Danish centre-right government and may deliver a blow to the country's immigration policies, which are amongst the most restrictive in Europe.

The European Union's highest court ruled last Friday (25 July) in a case of four couples living in Ireland that spouses of EU citizens who are not themselves EU citizens can not be prevented from living in the Republic.

ＥＵは、ＥＵ加盟国民である限り絶対的に差別禁止ですが、第三国人についてはどう扱おうがカラスの勝手というのが原則ですが、ＥＵ加盟国民の配偶者であるけれども本人はＥＵ加盟国民ではなく第三国人という場合、どっちにはいるんでしょうか。厳密に言えば本人は第三国人ですから、そんな奴の入国は認めないというのもありとも思えますが、さすがにそういう人については、ちゃんと指令を作って対応しています。上の判決文にある最近の指令ですね。ところが、あの福祉国家で知られるデンマークはそれをちゃんと実行していないではないかという話です。

この判決自体はアイルランドの移民法がＥＵ指令違反だとしたものですが、それが一番影響を及ぼすのはデンマークなんですね。

実は、以前本ブログで紹介したデンマーク事情がこのあたりを詳しく書かれているので、もう一度引用しますね。

http://eulabourlaw.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/05/post_0ae1.html

http://ameblo.jp/komanatsu86/entry-10061131532.html

ここに書いてある「愛の橋」のことが、この記事でも、

>Having been denied residence in Denmark, many such couples settle in the city of Malmo in Sweden, about half an hour's drive from Copenhagen, as Sweden has less restrictive immigration laws.

と書かれていますね。