The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Nicholas Emiliou, has clarified the conditions for obtaining refugee status for two stateless persons of Palestinian origin who are applying, for the second time in Bulgaria, for refugee status in the European Union, in his Opinion delivered on Thursday 11 January (case C-563/22).
The two Palestinians refer to the lex specialis set out in Directive 2011/95/EU on the conditions for obtaining international protection. Under a...