France gets ass-kicked for Gypsy treatment, denies racism (ha)

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The European Commission is threatening to take France to the European Court of Justice, and France is running scared.

France replies to EU on Roma's free movement: EU
[br />(AFP) – 17 hours ago

BRUSSELS — France sent its reply to the EU executive on its expulsion of Roma, ahead of a midnight deadline to give assurances that it will fall in line with EU laws or face legal action, an EU spokesman said.

"We received the French documents, we will analyse them during the weekend," spokesman Matthew Newman said.

He did not give details on the French reply but France vowed earlier Friday to change its laws on the free movement of EU citizens in order to meet the European Commission ultimatum following its controversial crackdown on Roma Gypsies.

French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said earlier France was "disposed" to transfer certain measures from the Union's directive on free movement into French national law to increase the transparency and clarity of the law.]

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1. France vowed earlier Friday to change its laws on the free movement of EU citizens in order to meet

the European Commission ultimatum."

Love it. :)

Even better the far-right National Front must really hate that Sarkozy is, at least belatedly, abiding by EU rules on freedom of movement. The Front wants to withdraw from the European Union and Sarkozy has been pandering to them to win electoral support from their supporters. This may drive a wedge between that coalition of nuts.