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On 14 May 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in the joined cases C-924/19 and 925/19 concerning, inter alia, the accommodation of asylum seekers in the Röszke transit zone at the Hungarian-Serbian border and the grounds of inadmissibility for asylum applications.

On 12 May 2020, the European Court of Human Rights published its decision on the case Sudita Keita v. Hungary (Application No. 42321/15) concerning a stateless individual’s protracted difficulty to regularise their status in Hungary.

The Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats’s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) recently requested a preliminary ruling from the CJEU on the interpretation of new elements or findings in subsequent asylum applications (C-921/19). The following questions are referred:

• Alleleh and Others v Norway (Application No. 569/20): The first applicant, Ms Alleleh, is a Djibouti national. The other applicants, her partner and 4 children, are Norwegian nationals. The first applicant applied for asylum in Norway in 2001 under the pretext of being a Somali national. Her request was rejected and she later married the second applicant in 2004.