Brussels, 09/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - In order to determine whether a person may benefit from subsidiary protection (for people who cannot claim refugee status), a member state is entitled to make the submission of an asylum application a pre-requisite, according to a judgment returned by the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 8 May.
The Court was asked to examine (Case C-604/12) the case of an individual of Pakistani nationality who, having been refused the renewal of a residence...