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*** Second jurisprudential analysis under the EUAA Case Law Grant is published, drafted by Comillas Pontifical University on Jurisprudence on Asylum Pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights in 2024-2025 (Call EUBA-EUAA-2025-ASYLUMCASELAW). January 2026.

*** Recent EUAA publications on asylum jurisprudence:

EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, Issue 4/2025 for asylum judgments from September to November 2025. To receive the Quarterly by email, please subscribe here.
Jurisprudence on LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection (September 2025) also in FR, EL, IT, ES.
Analysis of jurisprudence on the implementation of the Dublin procedure (June 2025).
Jurisprudence related to asylum pronounced by the Court of Justice of the EU in 2024 (April 2025) also in FR, DE, EL, IT, ES.
Jurisprudence related to Gender-Based Violence against Women. Analysis of asylum case law from 2020-2024 (Feb 2025) also in FR, DE, EL, IT, ES.

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*** Second jurisprudential analysis under the EUAA Case Law Grant is published, drafted by Comillas Pontifical University on&#160;<a href="/Documents/2026_ECtHR_jurisprudence_asylum-EN.pdf">Jurisprudence on Asylum Pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights in 2024-2025</a> (Call EUBA-EUAA-2025-ASYLUMCASELAW). January 2026.

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*** Recent EUAA&#160;publications on asylum jurisprudence&#58;&#160;

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	<a href="/Newsletters/2025_EUAA_Quarterly_Overview_Asylum_Case_Law_Issue4_EN.pdf">EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, Issue 4/2025</a> for asylum judgments from September to November 2025.&#160;To receive the Quarterly&#160;by email, please&#160;<a href="/pages/subscribe.aspx" target="_blank">subscribe here</a>.
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	<a href="/Documents/2025_factsheet39_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_EN.pdf">Jurisprudence on LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection</a> (September 2025) also in&#160;<a href="/Documents/2025_factsheet39_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_FR_1.pdf">FR</a>, <a href="/Documents/2025_factsheet39_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_EL.pdf">EL</a>,&#160;<a href="/Documents/2025_factsheet39_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_IT.pdf">IT</a>,&#160;<a href="/Documents/2025_factsheet39_case_law_LGBTIQ_applicants_ES.pdf">ES</a>.
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	<a href="/Documents/Factsheet%2033_jurisprudence_Dublin_procedure_EN.pdf">Analysis of jurisprudence on the implementation of the Dublin procedure</a>&#160;(June 2025).
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	<a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_EN.pdf">Jurisprudence related to asylum pronounced by the Court of Justice of the EU in 2024</a> (April 2025) also in&#160;<a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_FR.pdf">FR</a>, <a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_DE.pdf">DE</a>,&#160;<a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_EL.pdf">EL</a>,&#160;<a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_IT.pdf">IT</a>,&#160;<a href="/Documents/Factsheet32_CJEU_jurisprudence_ES.pdf">ES</a>.
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	<li><a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_EN.pdf">Jurisprudence related to Gender-Based Violence against Women. Analysis of asylum case law from 2020-2024</a>&#160;(Feb 2025) also in <a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_FR.pdf">FR</a>, <a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_DE.pdf">DE</a>, <a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_EL.pdf">EL</a>, <a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_IT.pdf">IT</a>, <a href="/Documents/2025_jurisprudence_gender_based_violence_ES.pdf">ES</a>.</li>
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05/03/2026

EU: The CJEU ruled that a Member State may extend several times and consecutively the time limit for examining applications for international protection if it can show that, despite efforts, it did not have sufficient time to provide the determining authority with appropriate and sufficient means for an adequate and complete processing of a large inflow of applications and, provided that the cumulative duration of successive extensions does not exceed the time necessary to comply with that obligation or the maximum time limit of 21 months from the lodging of the application.

The request for a preliminary ruling was made in proceedings between the State Secretary for Justice and Security in the Netherlands and X, a Syrian national, concerning the failure of the State Secretary to take a decision within the statutory...

05/03/2026

EU: The CJEU ruled that in order to calculate the maximum period of detention in view of a return, it is necessary to aggregate all periods of detention completed in a Member State for the purpose of enforcing one and the same return decision.

According to the CJEU press release of 5 March 2026: "A Moroccan national who entered Finland illegally in September 2022, despite being subject to a ban on entry to the Schengen area, was detained on four occasions by the authorities of that Member State with a view to his removal to his country of origin. The legality of one of these periods of detention, from 11 September 2023 to 18 January 2024, is being examined by the Finnish courts, since, at that stage, the initial maximum period of...

05/03/2026

EU: The CJEU ruled that the responsible Member State under the Dublin III Regulation cannot discharge itself, by a mere unilateral announcement, of its responsibilities under that regulation and if it was deemed to have accepted responsibility due to its failure to reply to a request, the transfer must take place within six months. If the transfer does not take place within six months, responsibility is transferred to the requesting Member State. Furthermore, the European Commission or another Member State may bring an action for failure to fulfil obligations against a Member State that does not comply with the Dublin III Regulation.

According to the CJEU press release of 5 March 2026: "At the end of 2022, Italy notified the other...

13/01/2026

MT: The First Hall Civil Court (Constitutional Jurisdiction) delivered its first ruling on detention following the ECtHR’s judgements on detention in Malta, finding that holding an unaccompanied minor asylum applicant in Ħal Far and Ħal Safi detention centres amounted to arbitrary and illegal detention, violated his best interests as a child, and the detention conditions amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in violation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Constitution of Malta.

The applicant, a Liberian national, arrived in Malta on 24 November 2021. He was rescued at sea and taken to hospital, where he first provided information that he was a minor (fifteen years old) and that he had arrived unaccompanied. As COVID-19 pandemic measures were in place, he was placed under...

14/01/2026

NL: The Council of State ruled that COA may take into account penalty payments paid by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) to asylum applicants for delays in processing their asylum applications when determining whether they possess assets above the capital limit and must therefore pay a personal contribution toward reception costs.

An asylum applicant received penalty payments from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) because his asylum application was not decided within the applicable time limits. Subsequently, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) requested the applicant to provide a personal contribution to the cost of reception. COA made this request in line with Article 20 of the Regulation on Provision of Asylum Seekers and Other categories of Aliens (RVA 2005), which stipulates that applicants with assets...

17/12/2025

NL: The Council of State dismissed the appeal of an Ethiopian applicant from Aksum (Tigray), ruling that there is no indiscriminate violence or armed conflict in Aksum, as the security situation improved since the ceasefire of November 2022, with significant decrease in armed confrontations, human rights violations, and number of civilian deaths. The court distinguished between this area controlled by the Tigrayan Interim Regional Administration (TIRA) and the rest of the disputed areas in the north, south, and west of Tigray, where various militias are active. Therefore, an asylum applicant from this region must demonstrate that they are at risk due to their personal situation.

The applicant, an Ethiopian national from Aksum (Tigray region), applied for asylum in the Netherlands. He claimed that, because of his Tigrayan ethnicity, he had been assaulted during...