Brides Without Borders

13.10.2005

ORAL QUESTION H-0898/05
for Question Time at the part-session in November 2005
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Elspeth Attwooll
to the Council

The UK Government is seeking to oblige many British women to leave the UK so that they join husbands refused residence rights. They are told that it is safe to settle in countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Congo and Burundi, although such countries are deemed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office or US State Department as being dangerous for Western visitors and/or in breach of fundamental rights.

 

How is this practice compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, especially the right to a family life, the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights and Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union?

 

 

Tabled: 13.10.2005

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