On Tuesday 19 March, the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled in case C-444/17 that an internal border of a Member State over which checks have been restored cannot be treated as an external border under Directive 2008/115/EC (Return Directive).
A Moroccan citizen was checked in France near the Franco-Spanish land border while travelling on a coach from Morocco. Having previously been the subject of a removal order from French territory and suspected of having...