The Netherlands cannot require Turkish immigrants with residence permits to follow integration courses. The ruling by the Utrecht Court of Appeals was announced on Tuesday.
Last year, judges from Roermond and Rotterdam ruled in three different cases that imposing integration courses on Turkish residents of the Netherlands is in violation of agreements between Turkey and the European Union. The appeals court has now upheld these rulings.
In 2007, the Netherlands instituted the Civic Integration Act stipulating that everyone who emigrates to the Netherlands, including people from Turkey, must successfully complete integration courses. However, this is in conflict with an EU treaty stating that member states cannot make new laws that restrict the rights granted to Turks. It also says there must be no discrimination between Turkish and EU citizens.
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