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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:

Jurisprudence related to the Dublin Procedure in 2025 (Feb 2026).
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.

The EUAA Information and Analysis Sector can provide, upon request, online sessions on how to use the EUAA Case Law Database. We also provide presentations on the latest jurisprudence interpreting the Common European Asylum System. For more information, contact us at caselawdb@euaa.europa.eu

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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="https&#58;//www.euaa.europa.eu/publications/jurisprudence-related-dublin-procedure-2025">Jurisprudence related to the Dublin Procedure in 2025</a> (Feb 2026).
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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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The EUAA Information and Analysis Sector&#160;can provide, upon request, online sessions on&#160;how to use&#160;the EUAA Case Law Database. We also provide presentations on the latest jurisprudence interpreting the Common European Asylum System.&#160;For more information, contact us at&#160;caselawdb@euaa.europa.eu

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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...

19/02/2026

DE: The Federal Administrative Court ruled that, in cases in which applicants are beneficiaries of international or subsidiary protection in another Member State where they cannot be returned due to a risk of ill-treatment, and when the new application made in Germany is rejected following a new individual assessment, the German competent authority can issue a threat of deportation of the applicant to his or her country of origin.

The Federal Administrative Court ruled that third-country nationals, who have been granted international or subsidiary protection in another Member State, but who cannot be returned due to a risk of inhuman or degrading treatment, may be threatened with removal to their country of origin if their asylum application in Germany has been rejected. The cases concerned Iraqi...

28/01/2026

DE: The Federal Administrative Court clarified that an asylum application submitted by an Iraqi national in Germany did not qualify as a ‘second application’ under the national law because the unsuccessful asylum procedure initiated earlier in Finland has not been become final. The court relied on the CJEU jurisprudence to conclude that Section 71a of the Asylum Act is in line with the concept of subsequent application as defined by the recast Asylum Procedures Directive and that the date of the application in Germany is the decisive factor when assessing whether an application can be considered as 'second application'.

An Iraqi national requested asylum in Germany at the beginning of March 2017 after having previously applied for international protection in Finland where the asylum authority rejected...

03/03/2026

DK: The Refugee Appeals Board decided its first cases concerning nationals of Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, holding that no areas in Syria have an exceptionally high level or high level of indiscriminate violence and that there is no real risk for a civilian to be personally affected by indiscriminate violence in Damascus.

The Refugee Appeals Board examined ten test cases concerning Syrian nationals from Damascus or the Rif Damascus provinces, the first to be decided since the fall of the Assad regime. In all cases, the Board concluded that the general conditions in Syria cannot justify international protection. The Board referred the EUAA's Country Guidance: Syria from December 2025, to conclude that no areas in Syria have an...