Asylum and Migration Law

The post discusses WS v. Frontex and its appeal, focusing on clarifying Frontex's human rights obligations. It offers a fresh perspective on how the CJEU may balance fundamental rights and Frontex’s limited powers in conducting lawful Return Operations with Member States.

This post comments on a preliminary ruling in which the ECJ held that a ten-year residence requirement imposed on long-term resident third-country nationals to access basic income under Italian law in is breach of EU law.

This blogpost aims to examine the complex landscape of border procedures based on the final text of the Asylum Procedures Regulation.

This post discusses the Commission's proposition for the new youth mobility agreement between the EU and the UK.

This post addresses the question: to what extent does the revised Single Permit Directive contribute to the EU’s toolbox to protect and safeguard migrant works from abusive employers or simply maintain the status quo?

By considering the Directive’s objective and purpose, this post argues that an alternative – but sound – interpretation of Article 4(2) TPD allows for an extension of the Directive without amendments.

This post argues that shielding Frontex from meaningful responsibility is not only harmful for victims of fundamental right violations committed by Frontex, but that it also compromises the institutional framework of EU agencies.

This blog post seeks to highlight the theoretical and practical relevance of the Women who are Victims of Domestic Violence case in the fields of EU external relations and EU refugee law, respectively.

This post explores how four possible EU-wide options for post-TPD status would impact the rights of asylum seekers and refugees who fled Ukraine.

This post argues that The General Court’s idea that an absence of causality is sufficient to dismiss the case is without any legal or logical basis, a confusion of competences with causes.

This post examines two issues in the Commission's Long-Term Resident Directive proposal: the required residence period before labour migrants can receive LTR status as well as the intra-EU mobility rights and additional socio-economic rights that accompany LTR status.

This blogpost aims to explain how the proposed rules in the EU asylum and migration policy will promote exclusionary practices and denial of legal safeguards, that will be at the expense of legal certainty, uniformity and respect for fundamental rights.

In the following blog post, the new EU sanctions regime will be subject to a SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis.

This contribution notes the current role of Eurodac and highlights the proposed changes to the system as they relate to minors and their fundamental rights as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter).

This post will argue that it would be more normatively desirable for the European Union’s legislature to adopt measures in order to preserve these electoral rights for UK citizens.

This post will consider the feasibility of the proposed European Free Movement Mechanism to address UK nationals’ loss of EU citizenship status and rights after their Member State’s withdrawal.