A Member State of the European Union is not obliged to automatically recognise refugee status granted in another Member State, ruled the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) in a judgment handed down on Tuesday 18 June (case C-753/22).
In Germany, a Syrian national who had been granted refugee status in Greece challenged the German authorities’ refusal to recognise her status even though they had granted her subsidiary protection, arguing that the plaintiff risked inhuman or degrading treatment if...