Brussels, 14/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - Where a member state may not transfer an asylum seeker to the state competent to examine his application because of a risk of infringement of his fundamental rights, the member state is required to identify another member state as responsible for the examination. It can also examine the application itself but it is not obliged to do so.
This is the main thrust of the ruling delivered on Thursday 14 November by the European Court of Justice (case...