In 2022, an Eritrean woman and her child received a residence permit in Norway for family reunification with the child's father, who was a Norwegian citizen.

In 2023, the woman applied for asylum in Norway for herself and for her child, stating that she risked imprisonment in Eritrea because she had deserted from military service. She also pointed out that she needed a refugee travel document because she...

By Law of 14 July 2025, Belgium introduced a limitation of reception for international protection applicants who had obtained protection in another EU Member State.

On 26 February 2026, the Belgian Constitutional Court provisionally suspended these new rules, finding that the withdrawal of this support creates a risk of...

According to the ECtHR press release of 26 March 2026:

"Principal facts

The applicant, Mr D.M., is an...

A child born in Belgium to Palestinian parents recognised as refugees was granted Belgian nationality pursuant to Article 10(1) of the Belgian Nationality Code (WBN), which stipulates that a child born in Belgium who has no other nationality is Belgian. By decision of 5 March 2024, the registrar of Antwerp revoked the child’s Belgian nationality, considering that the child could acquire the Palestinian...

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 nationals who have been...

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 the application in May 2016. The appeal procedures in Finland were unsuccessful, and the applicant was notified on 5 April 2017. In Germany, the Federal Office for Asylum and Migration (BAMF) rejected the application as inadmissible in...

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:...

A stateless Palestinian applicant born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon, requested asylum in Denmark in 2021, arguing that he was suffering from an illness and feared dying if he returned to Lebanon, as he would not receive proper treatment. He stated that, due to the shortage of medicine and treatment in Lebanon, he would not be able to obtain his vital medication there, either from hospitals or...

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 six-month time limit, on the application for international protection lodged by X in the Netherlands on 17 February 2023.

X complained about the inaction of the...

A.B., a Georgian national, applied for international protection in Ireland on 12 July 2022, submitting that he and his brother had been physically and verbally threatened over farmland ownership by a man with influence in criminal circles. He stated that the man’s brother was a politician from the Georgian Dream party and had influence within the police, which was why the applicant did not report the threats to...