On Thursday, 10 April, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) stated in his opinion (Joined Cases C-758/24 and C-759/24) that a Member State may designate ‘safe countries of origin’ by means of a legislative act but must disclose, for the purpose of judicial review, the sources of information on which that designation is based.
In particular, the advocate general found that a Member State—in this case, Italy, which signed decrees in 2024 to launch its...