A Member State may not automatically declare an application for international protection inadmissible where the applicant already enjoys refugee status in another Member State, the Advocate General ruled on Thursday 30 September in his Opinion presented to the Court of Justice of the EU (Case C-483/20).
The case concerns a Syrian national who was granted international protection in Austria in 2015 and who, having travelled to Belgium in early 2016 to join his two daughters, one of whom is a...