In his opinion delivered on Thursday 26 June (joined cases C-50/24 and C-56/24), Advocate General Nicholas Emiliou of the Court of Justice of the European Union found that Belgium was in the right, at the end of 2023, to apply the border procedure to seven third-country nationals who arrived in the country via Brussels Airport and applied for protection.
Each had been refused entry to Belgium and had been detained in a centre considered to be “at the border”, even though it was inside...