EUAA Case Law Database

Latest news for users

*** Please fill in this survey to evaluate the EUAA Case Law Database and suggest improvements. We welcome your feedback!

*** Recent EUAA publications on jurisprudence:

Jurisprudence related to Gender-Based Violence against Women. Analysis of asylum case law from 2020-2024 (Feb 2025)
EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law for asylum judgments from September to November 2024. To receive the Quarterly by email, please subscribe here.
Jurisprudence on Material Reception Conditions in Asylum - Sanctions, Reductions and Withdrawals (Nov 2024)
Jurisprudence on the Application of the Temporary Protection Directive (Oct 2024)

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

Get our Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law

Click here to subscribe

Read our publications

Latest updates View all

27/02/2025

EU: The CJEU held that Article 8 of the TPD precludes national legislation which envisages the refusal of an application for a residence permit based on temporary protection when a person has applied for, but not received yet, such permit in another Member State. A person enjoying temporary protection has a right to an effective remedy before a tribunal against a decision to reject as inadmissible an application for a residence permit, within the meaning of Article 8 TPD.

A Ukrainian national applied for temporary protection in Germany on 19 July 2022. Two months later, she submitted a similar application in the Czech Republic. That second application...

26/09/2024

EU: The CJEU issued an order based on its previous judgment in X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-69/21, 22 November 2022) holding that the Returns Directive does not apply to a decision by which the authorities of a Member State refuse to grant a third-country national staying illegally in its territory a ‘right of residence on charitable, humanitarian or other grounds’, within the meaning of Article 6(4) of that directive.

On 12 October 2010, PL, a third-country national, requested asylum in Belgium, which was rejected on 4 July 2012 by decision of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS). On 31 December 2012,...

04/02/2025

COE: The ECtHR held that there would be a violation of Article 3 if the applicants were to be removed to China without an ex nunc rigorous assessment of the risk they would face on their return to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as Uighur Muslims rejected asylum seekers; the court indicated interim measures to the Maltese government.

A married couple of Uighur ethnicity and Muslim faith from Xinjiang province (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, XUAR) applied for international protection in Malta. They claimed that as they belonged to the Uighur ethnic group, their house and they had been subjected to numerous searches, and they were at risk of...

10/02/2025

BE: The Council for Alien Law Litigation granted refugee protection to a Tutsi young man from Burundi on the ground of perceived political opinion due to his stay in Belgium and the fact that he submitted an application for international protection, which would mean that upon a forced return to Burundi he would be suspected of having ties with the opposition.

A man from Burundi with Tutsi ethnicity applied for international protection in Belgium. On 21 November 2023, the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) rejected his application. The applicant appealed this decision before the Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL). The council ruled on...

11/02/2025

BE: The Court of Appeal held that the Belgian State unlawfully rejected the inclusion of a woman from Gaza on the Belgium evacuation list, prohibiting her from exercising her right to family reunification with her husband who was a beneficiary of subsidiary protection in Belgium. The court held that the distinction by the state between refugees and beneficiaries subsidiary protection for inclusion on the evacuation list was discriminatory in the context of family reunification in Belgium.

The applicant is a female residing in Gaza, Palestine. She requested to be reunited with her husband who was a beneficiary of subsidiary protection in Belgium. On 12 March 2024, the...

27/12/2024

BE: The Council of State ordered the urgent suspension of the enforcement of a decision of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration which aimed to limit material assistance for applicants for international protection who had already been granted refugee status in another Member State.

The Council of State examined a request by a group of civil society organisations to suspend, under the extremely urgent procedure, the execution of a decision made by the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration to limit material assistance for applicants for international protection who had already been granted refugee status in another Member State. The decision was first...