The provisions of a directive that allow a member state to refuse or to revoke refugee status do not infringe the Geneva Convention and are, therefore, compatible with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, argued Advocate General Melchior Wathelet in an opinion delivered on Thursday 21 June (joined cases C-391/16, C-77/17 and C-78/17).
The three cases at issue relate to three third country nationals: one from Cote d’Ivoire, a...