According to the CJEU press release of 5 March 2026:

"At the end of 2022, Italy notified the other Member States that, provisionally and subject to exceptions, it would no longer accept transfers of applicants for international protection under the Dublin III Regulation. It thus refuses to take charge of any applicants for whom it is responsible.

A German court has asked the...

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...

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 authority before the District Court of the Hague, which was declared inadmissible...

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...

Asylum applicants in Belgium, some beneficiaries of international protection in another Member State (the majority in Greece) and some being first time applicants in Belgium, submitted 20 claims before the Constitutional Court on 23 and 24 October 2025, requesting the court to annul and suspend the Law of 14 July 2025 which modified the Law of 15 December 1980 on access to territory, residence, and removal of third country nationals, as well as Articles 2, 4 and 5 of the Law of 12...

Two families of Yemeni nationals submitted requests before the Constitutional Court for the suspension and annulment of the new rules restricting access to family reunification for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and their family members. The Constitutional Court decided to join the examination of both cases and to adopt a single judgment.

The law of 18 July 2025, amending the Law  of 15 December 1980 on access to territory, residence and removal of third...

A., a national of Yemen, requested international protection in France, claiming that she feared being exposed to persecution or serious harm by her family and Yemeni society, if returned to her country of origin, because of her membership of the social group of women who have evaded compulsory marriage, and of the social group of non-excised women and divorced women. Her claims were also related to a risk of persecution or serious harm by the Houthi militiamen due to the political opinions...

According to the ECtHR press release of 19 February 2026:

“The applicants are a family of four Azerbaijani nationals: Mr V.N., his wife, now deceased, and their daughter and son. They were born in 1973, 1975, 2006 and 1999, respectively.

The family arrived in Sweden in May 2013 and requested asylum, which was refused. The...

The applicants are a married couple of Somali nationals. The first applicant was granted refugee status in Greece on 21 November 2019, and the second applicant was granted subsidiary protection status in Greece on 7 May 2020. On 19 September 2021, they requested international protection in the Netherlands, claiming that they had experienced problems with Al-Shabaab in South Somalia. They also argued that they could not return to Greece, as they would face a serious risk of being subjected...

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 granted international or subsidiary protection in Greece and then subsequently...

On 24 December 2019, the State Secretary for Participation and Integration fined a status holder €1250 euro for failing to comply with the integration requirements under the Civic Integration Act by the stipulated deadline. She was ordered to repay the loan she had taken out in full in relation to the integration costs. Subsequent requests by the status holder for the state secretary to reconsider the decision were rejected. On appeal, the District Court of Gelderland upheld the decision...

A former soldier in the Wagner Group was excluded by the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) from refugee status under Section 31(1)(b) of the Immigration Act for commission of a serious non-political crime, and he was granted a residence permit with restrictions under Section 74 of the Immigration Act. The applicant complained against this decision arguing that he was a privileged combatant, that the Wagner Group belonged to one of the parties to the conflict entitled to immunity from national...

The request for a preliminary ruling was made in a case concerning NP, a Syrian national from Aleppo, whose request for international protection was rejected by the Chairperson of the National Refugee Agency in Bulgaria (DAB) on 18 June 2024, with the reasoning that although the applicant did not qualify for refugee status, he was exposed to a real threat to his life or person due to the internal armed conflict and indiscriminate violence in Syria. As NP was believed to have safely spent...

According to the press release of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR):

“The case concerns the removal of the applicants to Bulgaria after they had expressed their intention of seeking asylum in Serbia. At approximately 12.15 a.m. on 3 February 2017, the Serbian authorities arrested the applicants on suspicion of having...

The CNDA granted refugee protection to a Zaghawa man from North Darfur, whose ethnic group is particularly targeted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Arab militias in Sudan.

M., a national of Sudan from the city of El Fasher in North Darfur State and of Zaghawa ethnicity, requested international protection in France, claiming that he feared being persecuted if returned to his country of origin, by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which accuses him of collaborating with rebel...