If a member state omits to apply, within deadline, for an asylum seeker to be handed over to the authorities of the member state in which the first application was made, that member state becomes responsible for processing an application made on its territory, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a judgment returned on Thursday 5 July (case C-213/17).
A Pakistani national submitted two asylum applications in the Netherlands, which were rejected and the second appealed against at the time...