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Asylum law | European Law Blog
Category: Asylum law
By Daniela Obradovic
The duty of solidarity between EU Member States
Although the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) long ago characterised the deliberate refusal of a Member State to implement EU law as a ‘failure in the duty of solidarity’ that ‘strikes at the fundamental basis’ of the EU legal order (Case 39/72, para. 25), it has not been clear whether the principle of solidarity among Member States can be enforced in European courts. The recent response of the CJEU to the Slovakian and Hungarian challenge (C-643 and C-647/15, the migrant quotas verdict) to the Council decision on the relocation of migrants from Italy and Greece (the relocation decision) seems to establish that the principle of solidarity between Member States in the area of EU immigration policy can be a source of EU obligations susceptible to judicial enforcement. Continue reading →
Written by Daniela Obradovic 2 Comments Posted in Asylum law, Economic and Monetary Union, EU constitutional law, Institutional law, Third country nationals	Tagged with Case C-643/15, Case C-647/15, Council decision on relocation, duty of solidarity, migrant quotas
Doctoral Workshop “The EU as a Global Actor in …”
University of Geneva, 6-7 July 2017. Deadline for abstract submissions: 27 March 2017.
Conference “Article 7 TEU, the EU Rule of Law Framework and EU Values: Powers, Procedures, Implications”
University of Warsaw, 13-15 September 2017. Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 April 2017.
Conference “Economic Evidence in Competition Law and the Future of the ‘More Economic Approach’”
University College London, 12 May 2017. Deadline for registration: 10 May 2017.
Call for Papers “Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Quarterly”
Deadline for submissions: 10 May 2017.
Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy
Brussels, 3-14 July 2017. Deadline for applications: 10 June 2017.
Summer School “People on the Move in an Evolving Europe – EU Law and Policy on Mobility, Migration and Asylum”
University of Fribourg, 21-25 August 2017. Deadline for applications: 15 April.
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, Competition law, EU constitutional law, External Relations, Fundamental rights, Institutional law, Third country nationals	Tagged with Article 7 TEU, comparative constitutional law, economic evidence in competition law, EU as a global actor, EU asylum law, EU immigration law, EU Rule of Law Framework, more economic approach
On 7 March 2017, the CJEU announced its judgement in case C-638/16 PPU (X and X / Belgium) and dashed all hopes for an extensive interpretation of the EU Visa Code in the light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. To summarize the facts of the case, X and X and their three small children are an Orthodox Christian family living in rebel-held Aleppo. In October 2016 X leaves Aleppo to apply for a visa with limited territorial validity ex Article 25(1) of the EU Visa Code at the Belgian embassy in Beirut (Lebanon). The application states that the aim of entry into Belgium is to apply for asylum. X returns to his family in Aleppo immediately after lodging the application. Less than a week later, they are served with a negative decision from the Belgian authorities, against which they appeal. The court of appeal refers the case to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 25 of the Visa Code. In its rather short judgment the CJEU determines, contrary to what AG Mengozzi (see detailed analyses of this Opinion here and also here) argued with regard to this case, that the applications of X and X fall outside the scope of the EU Visa Code, even if they were formally submitted on its basis. Continue reading →
Written by Margarite Helena Zoeteweij 2 Comments Posted in Asylum law, EU constitutional law, Fundamental rights, Third country nationals	Tagged with C-638/16 PPU, Dublin system, humanitarian visa, Regulation 604/2003, Regulation 810/2009, Visa Code
The opinion of AG Mengozzi in the case of X and X v. Belgium, so far only available in French, has created quite a stir throughout the European Union. In a nutshell, the AG found that, when third country nationals apply for a visa with limited territorial validity (‘LTV’) under Article 25 of the Visa Code with the aim of applying for international protection once they have arrived in a Member State’s territory, the Member State’s immigration authority should take the circumstances of the applicant into account and assess whether a refusal would lead to an infringement of the applicant’s rights as protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Although the AG makes an effort to cover all the arguments brought up by the parties, this blogpost focuses mainly on the issues directly related to the margin of discretion left to the Member States by Article 25(1) of the Visa Code. Continue reading →
Written by Margarite Helena Zoeteweij 7 Comments Posted in Asylum law, Fundamental rights, Procedural Autonomy, Third country nationals	Tagged with Charter of Fundamental Rights, fundamental rights, immigration and asylum law and policy, national procedural autonomy, third-country nationals, Visa Code
Hungary’s Referendum on the Migrant Quota: a ‘no’ sought to do what?
By Márk Némedi
“Do you want the European Union to be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian nationals to Hungary even in lack of the consent of the National Assembly?”[i] – this is the question Hungarian voters will be asked to respond to on 2 October 2016. Speculations and verbal sparring have been strengthening about what may lie ahead, and not without reason. It appears that the possible legal and political implications of a valid vote could be broader than usual. At the least, referenda should pose concrete questions which invite an answer giving political institutions a well-circumscribed mandate. They should not give national governments a blanket authorisation and a political salvus conductus to freely choose what the will of the people requires. This contribution will look at how these principles fare in the upcoming referendum on the migrant quota and what the broader implications may be for both Hungary and the Union. Continue reading →
Written by Márk Némedi 1 Comment Posted in Asylum law, EU constitutional law, General	Tagged with Hungarian referendum, mass immigration, Migrant quota, xenophobia
PhD Forum “Law and Governance in a Crisis-Ridden Union”
Netherlands Institute for Law and Governance, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 17 November 2016. Deadline for abstract submissions : 4 September 2016.
Call for papers “The Migration Crisis as a Challenge for Democracy”
Centre for Direct Democracy Studies, University of Białystok. Deadline for abstract submissions : 10 September 2016.
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, Economic and Monetary Union, EU constitutional law, Free movement of persons, Third country nationals
Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm: July 2016
Vienna University of Economics and Business, 23 September 2016. Deadline for (free) registration : 16 September 2016.
University of Hamburg, 23-24 September 2016. (Free) registration necessary.
University of Lund, 24 November 2016. Deadline for (free) registration : 10 November 2016.
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in Administrative Law, Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, EU constitutional law, Free movement of persons
Dans un arrêt important du 15 février 2016 dans l’affaire J.N., la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a confirmé la validité de l’art. 8 par. 3, premier alinéa, sous e), de la directive 2013/33/UE (directive « accueil »). La Cour s’est notamment prononcée sur sa compatibilité avec l’art. 6 de la Charte des Droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne (UE) et l’art. 5 CEDH (tel qu’interprété par l’arrêt Nabil). Si le raisonnement de la Cour dans le cas d’espèce paraît judicieux, il laisse ouvertes certaines questions relatives à la détention des demandeurs d’asile en général. Continue reading →
Written by Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf 1 Comment Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, EU constitutional law, Fundamental rights, Third country nationals	Tagged with article 5 ECHR, article 6 Charter, C-601/15 PPU J.N., Directive 2013/33/EU, Nabil
POMFR: Reviewing Protecting Vulnerable Groups – what about Hector Salamanca and Donald Gately?
By Thomas Burri
Francesca Ippolito/Sara Iglesias Sánchez (eds.), Protecting Vulnerable Groups – The European Human Rights Framework, Hart Publishing 2015
Hector Salamanca was vulnerable. The Mexican was old and, after having suffered a stroke, tied to the wheel chair. He had no means of communication save a tiny bell he barely managed to ring. After most of his family was dead, he lived the life of a lonesome vegetable in a nursing home.
Donald Gately is vulnerable. His sense of honour and duty as a staffer at Enfield House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House had practically compelled him to defend a drug addict who had got involved in a fight. In the fight, Don G. was shot in the shoulder. Now, he is tied to the hospital bed, suffering from inhuman pain, pain from which only opioids could bring relief – though not for him, for opioids had been the focus of his long history of substance abuse and now he is desperately abstinent.
Protecting Vulnerable Groups is a great book. It made me see all of the above (and more) in a new light. To be sure, Protecting Vulnerable Groups is not a book about Breaking Bad or Infinite Jest. It is not an economic, sociological, or socialist book either, despite the appearance the title creates. No, Protecting Vulnerable Groups is a rock solid book on the law, in particular case law. It explains how the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice attend to the vulnerable. Sometimes, the courts explicitly find persons vulnerable, as in MSS v Belgium and Greece when an asylum-seeker was declared “particularly vulnerable” (Protecting Vulnerable Groups, p. 249); sometimes the idea of vulnerability is merely inherent in the courts’ case law. Both occurrences are discussed extensively in the book. Continue reading →
Written by Thomas Burri No comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Citizenship, Employment Law, EU constitutional law, Free movement of persons, Fundamental rights, POMFR, Third country nationals	Tagged with Breaking Bad, Infinite Jest, protecting vulnerable groups, Vulnerability
“The winter is approaching” – Juncker and his state of the union address – has it said enough regarding the refugee crisis?
With each passing day scores of lives are either ended by bodies being washed ashore or are lost in the faceless congregation of ‘refugees/migrants’ on the peripheries of Europe and beyond. Both the ‘European family’ and the ‘European Fabric’ has laid itself bare in the face of the uncontainable refugee crisis brewing in the heart of Europe, uncovering the stark divide between the East and the West. Amidst the melancholy that has reached the shores of Europe, it is vital to take pause and query whether the present catastrophe could have been contained and what steps are being taken by the European Union (hereinafter referred to as “EU”) towards this end. In this regard, Juncker’s State of the Union address 2015 (hereinafter referred to as “Union address”/ “Address”) comes at an auspicious time and has been met with pensive eagerness. The Union address rightly devotes significant attention towards the refugee crisis and has proposed a slew of measures, both immediate and long term, to alleviate the present situation. This post looks through these developments and assesses whether the measures adopted thus far and proposed for the immediate future are sufficient to improve the current circumstances and prepare the EU and its member states (hereinafter referred to as “MS”) to effectively deal with the continuing crisis.
Written by Kanad Bagchi 3 Comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, External Relations, Fundamental rights, General	Tagged with Agenda on Migration, Dublin Regulation, Frontex, Juncker, relocation of refugees, State of the Union 2015
Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm: June 2015
Summer Academy in Global Food Law and Policy
Bilbao, 20-24 July 2015. Deadline for application: 18 June 2015.
Conference “Constructive Links or Dangerous Liaisons? The Case of Public International Law and European Union Law”
Queen Mary University of London, 25-26 June 2015. Registration open.
Critical Legal Conference 2015 “Law, Space and the Political”
University of Wroclaw, 3-5 September 2015. Deadline for paper proposal submission: 30 June 2015.
Call for Papers “5es Journées des Doctorants du Centre de Droit des Migrations”
Muntelier-Leuwenberg, Universities of Bern/Fribourg/Neuchâtel, 26-27 November 2015. Deadline for abstract submissions: 19 August 2015.
Call for Papers for the PhD Forum “Law and Governance in the Digital Era”
University of Amsterdam, 20 November 2015. Deadline for abstract submissions: 4 September 2015.
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, Citizenship, Data protection and digital governance, External Relations, Fundamental rights, Internal Market, International Trade Law, Legal methods, Public International Law, Third country nationals
Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm: May 2015
Summer Schools “Dublin III: Two Years on”, “Venice School of Human Rights”, “Venice Academy of Human Rights”
European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, 19-21 June/26 June – 4 July/6 – 15 July 2015. Deadline for application: 21 May 2015/check website.
Conference “The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law”
European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, 5 June 2015. Deadline for registration: 28 May 2015.
University of Bologna, 28 June – 3 July 2015. Deadline for application: 10 June 2015.
Conference “20 Years Later: The Legacy of Bosman”
TMC Asser Institute, 18 June 2015. No deadline for registration.
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, Free movement of persons, Free movement of services, Fundamental rights, Public International Law
Aarhus University, 5-6 March 2015. Deadline for abstract submissions : 1 February 2015. Continue reading →
Written by Benedikt Pirker No comments Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Call for Papers: Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Environmental Law, Public International Law, Third country nationals	Tagged with call for papers EU law, drones, EU environmental law conference, immigration detention, targeted killings, Utrecht Journal of International and European Law
C-148/13, C-149/13 and C-150/13, A, B and C v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie: Stop Filming and Start Listening – a judicial black list for gay asylum claims
By S Chelvan
Written by S Chelvan 1 Comment Posted in AFSJ, Asylum law, Fundamental rights, Third country nationals	Tagged with 2004 Qualification Directive, article 9 of Directive 2004/83/EC, asylum, Directive 2004/83/EC, Joined Cases C‑148/13 to C‑150/13 A B C, prosecution, prosecution based on sexual orientation
In the past few months one has witnessed the re-emergence of the issue of pre-removal detention. The judgment in the case of Mr. Mahdi, released on the 5th June 2014 by the Third Chamber, is central in this regard and raises mixed feelings. On the one hand, the Court provides the national authorities with important guidelines with a view to ensuring –at least to a certain extent- the right of irregular migrants to effective remedies. On the other hand, it seems to lack inspiration when dealing with harder questions that require a constructive approach beyond the mere replication of the provisions of the Directive. Continue reading →
Written by Niovi Vavoula 1 Comment Posted in Asylum law, Free movement of persons, Fundamental rights, Third country nationals	Tagged with C-146/14 PPU, deportation, detention, Directive 2008/115/EC, Returns Directive, returns of irregular migrants, third-country nationals