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Published online 2 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1269
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Spain in the dock over research visas
Failure to cut red tape for foreign scientists prompts legal action by the European Union.
The European Commission is taking Spain to the European Court of Justice for failing to enact into national law the 2005 European Union (EU) directive on scientific visas. The directive aims to make it easier for researchers from outside the EU to work in an EU country and bring their families with them.
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As a non-EU PhD student in Italy suffering with my family since 4 years from the yearly residence renewal procedure which takes 11 month per year (we are in the same line with all illegals and during the 11-month renewal phase I cannot travel to EU countries), i suggest the EU to consider Italy to queue with Spain to the European Court of Justice.