The European Court of Justice found Belgium guilty last week of discriminating against non-Belgian students.  The court determined that it was unacceptable to require non-Belgian European Union nationals to take an entrance exam for higher education courses when the Belgian students did not.  The French speaking community has changed its policy since the European Commission took the case against Belgium to court.  The Commission continued with the suit, however, to establish Belgium’s legal responsibility towards students who had been negatively affected by the policy.

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Mexico and Guatemala signed an agreement last week to repatriate undocumented Central American migrants to their home countries, rather than to Guatemala.  Salvadoran migrants will now be taken by bus across Guatemala to their home country.  It was unclear whether the agreement would be extended to include Hondurans.

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One of Britain’s most successful people-smuggling rings came to an end last week when a high-speed air chase resulted in the arrest of a pilot who was ferrying Turkish asylum-seekers from Belgium and France.  After a seven-month intelligence stakeout, police pursued the pilot across the Kent skies and seized the aircraft.  The pilot had just dropped off what is thought to be his second shipment that day.  Each passenger had paid the pilot €10,000 (£6,700) for transport.  The passengers were also arrested.