This week, another pillar of post-national modernity has been shaken: family reunification in Europe.

This right for foreigners to bring their family members to the host country has become a cornerstone of European immigration policy over the past 50 years.

The Austrian Minister for European Affairs, Integration and Family Affairs, Claudia Plakolm, announced on Wednesday, March 26, that Austria was going to suspend family reunification by decree due to the saturation of the social resources necessary for the proper integration of foreigners.

However, family reunification is a European right that is firmly guaranteed, according to Grégor Puppinck, director of the ECLJ, who believes that the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights will oppose this project.

We discuss this in this new interview of the month, which you can watch now. We also analyze the possibility for France to take such a measure, and the reasons why national and European courts could oppose restrictions on the rights of foreigners.

Find all the interviews of the month with Grégor Puppinck on this YouTube playlist.

This video is originaly in French, but thanks to a new YouTube option, you can listen to it in English. Click on the spinning wheel and change the audio track.