Brussels, 01/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - EU law does not prevent a member state from imprisoning a third-country national who unlawfully enters its territory in breach of an entry ban.
Thus ruled the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 1 October in coming to a different conclusion from the one offered by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar in April (see EUROPE 11304). In its ruling (case C-290/14), the Court ultimately decided that the “return directive” (2008/115/EC) does not, in...