The Supreme Court of Finland (Korkein oikeus) recently requested a preliminary ruling from the CJEU (C-35/20) on right of EU citizens to move freely within the territory of the European Union. The referring court invited the CJEU to consider the following questions:
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.
On 2 April 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in the joint cases of the Commission v Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (C-715/17, C-718/17 and C-719/17) concerning the reliance on public order and national security considerations under Article
M.H and Others v Croatia (Application No. 43115/18) (No.2): The applicants are a family of 12 Afghan nationals who arrived in Croatia from Serbia. They were denied the opportunity to apply for asylum and were ordered to return to Serbia by following the train tracks.
On 26 February 2020, the Migration Court published its judgment in case ME 2020: 4 concerning the right to an effective remedy under Article 27(1) Dublin III Regulation when a State refuses to accept responsibility for an asylum application.
On 25 March 2020, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment in the case of Bilalova and Others v Poland (Application No. 23685/14) concerning the detention of a woman and her five children.
On 24 March 2020, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment in the case of Asady and Others v Slovakia (Application No. 24917/15) concerning the removal of Afghan nationals from Slovakia to Ukraine.
On 23 March 2020, the Tribunal Administratif de Nantes published its decision in case No. 2001918 concerning the refusal of the French consulate in Athens to register a family reunification request of a separated Afghan family.
On 19 March 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in C-564/18 L.H. v Bevándorlási és Menekültügyi Hivatal (Office for Immigration and Asylum) concerning the grounds for issuing an inadmissibility decision of an application for international protection (IP) and the time-limit imposed to make such a decision.
