According to the CJEU press release:

"In 2023, certain third-country nationals, who arrived by aeroplane at Brussels airport, submitted applications for international protection. The Belgian authorities refused their entry to the national territory and detained them in centres located inside that territory as part of the border procedures laid down by EU law. At the end of the period...

According to the ECtHR press release of 9 April 2026:

“Principal facts

The applicants are four individuals who arrived in Belgium in 2022 and applied for international protection. They allegedly lived and slept on the street in Brussels, in extremely precarious conditions, despite final decisions by the Brussels French-Language Employment Tribunal ordering the...

H.D., an unaccompanied minor from Burkina Faso, arrived in Italy on 24 June 2023. He was immediately placed in the adult reception centre and centre for asylum seekers, Sant'Anna C.A.R.A. Regional Hub in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, Crotone, where he was detained for approximately five months, until 6 December 2023. His age was not questioned. The applicant claimed that he was unable to leave the centre during that time. On 5 December 2023, the ECtHR ordered the Italian Government under Rule...

The applicant, a national of the Russian Federation, applied for international protection in Czechia after several years of residence in the country and after her residence permit was not extended, claiming a risk of persecution due to her political opinion, the need for continued medical treatment for her health conditions, and interference with her private and family life in the event of return. By a decision of 24 February 2025, the Ministry of the Interior (the ministry) refused to grant...

The applicant, a national of Georgia, applied for international protection in Czechia, claiming that he had faced discrimination and attacks in Georgia due to his homosexual orientation. On 21 February 2023, the Ministry of the Interior (the ministry) refused to grant the applicant international protection. The applicant challenged that decision before the Municipal Court in Prague, which annulled it on 15 November 2023 and remitted the case for re-examination. The ministry's cassation...

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 serious and irreparable harm. It also stayed the proceedings and referred a...

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 lacked valid identification.

The Norwegian Directorate of...

According to the ECtHR press release of 26 March 2026:

"Principal facts

The applicant, Mr D.M., is an Afghan national. He arrived in Sweden in 2015 when he was a teenager/young...

The request for preliminary ruling was made in proceedings concerning a Syrian applicant whose subsidiary protection status was revoked on grounds of threat to national security and for whom no return decision was issued because the return was prevented by the principle of non-refoulement. The minister ordered him to leave the Netherlands, but no return decision was issued. In the appeal proceedings, the District Court of The Hague seated in Roermond sought before the CJEU...

An Ethiopian national entered Germany in 2019 and applied for asylum, although she had already been granted international protection in Italy, where she had subsequently been issued a refugee travel document valid until October 2022. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) rejected her asylum application as inadmissible and issued a deportation order to Italy.

The applicant appealed the decision before the Bavarian Administrative Court, which upheld the rejection of her...

D., a national of South Sudan from the Nuer ethnic group in the Jonglei State, requested international protection in France, claiming that he feared being exposed to persecution or serious harm, if returned to his country of origin, by the Dinka government forces on account of imputed political opinions attributed to him because of his membership of the Nuer ethnic group, and because of the deteriorating security situation in South Sudan. The applicant claimed that his older brother was...

The applicant, a third-country national who had lived in Lithuania since 2010, applied for international protection in 2023, after temporary residence renewal had been denied on national security grounds. The applicant claimed fear of mobilization and being forced to participate in a war, as well as a risk of persecution due to political opinions opposing the authorities of the country of origin and the war and providing financial support through a fund in...

The applicants, a mother and her minor son, requested international protection in Lithuania. The applicant's former spouse – the minor applicant's father – had engaged in political opposition activity in the country of origin, had been criminally convicted on “extremism” grounds, and had been granted refugee status in Lithuania. The applicant claimed that they divorced only formally to protect their child while living in the country of origin, that they resumed...

The applicant is a minor who was born in Finland in 2015. His parents unsuccessfully applied for international protection for them and for him in Finland in the same year. He reapplied for protection in 2018 together with his parents and sister. Except for the father whose application was assessed and dismissed separately, the rest of the family were also refused international protection, and a return decision was issued. The applicant alone applied for a third time on 26 August 2022, but his...

The applicant, a third-country national, applied for international protection in Czechia, claiming a fear of persecution on religious grounds because of his conversion from Islam to Christianity. He stated that his family in the country of origin had threatened him in connection with having a child outside marriage and changing his surname. He also claimed to fear for his life and health because a person involved in criminal activity, whom he had helped to expose to...