On 13 June 2024, the CJEU ruled in case C-563/22 regarding Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA. This landmark decision reached in the case of a young mother and her daughter from Gaza impacts on all Palestinian refugees in the European Union. If UNRWA’s assistance ceases, applicants should automatically receive refugee status under EU law. The ruling […]
8 years after the adoption of the EU Turkey deal, Meltem Ineli Ciger, member of Odysseus from Turkey, has issued a publciation in which she analyses the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement as of 2024 by examining to what extent Turkey and the European Union, as well as its Member States, have fulfilled their pledges […]
Lilian Tsourdi, our Deputy Coordinator, is convening a hybrid lecture series in the framework of a Jean Monnet chair on EU Migration Law and Governance at the University of Maastricht. The next lecture is taking place on 25th June 2024 from 14:00-15:30 CET and will feature Prof. Lieneke Slingenberg, Professor of Migrants and the Rule […]
A new article from Odysseus member for the United Kingdom, Elspeth Guild, has been published on the European Law Journal. The article, entitled “Frontex and access to justice: The need for effective monitoring mechanisms“, examines how the EU can establish effective monitoring mechanisms with the competence to investigate allegations of state agencies’ border violence building […]
Our deputy coordinator Lilian Tsourdi is convening a series of hybrid lectures in the framework of a Jean Monnet chair at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. The fourth hybrid lecture of this series will take place Friday 31st May from 13:30-15:30 and will feature Odysseus member from the Netherlands, Tesseltje de Lange, Professor of European Migration […]
Věra Honusková, Odysseus member from Czech Republic is organizing the internationl conference ““Legal discourses on international and EU migration/refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?”. which will take place at Charles University of Prague on 9-10 May 2024. The conference is organized as a European Society of International Law […]
Madalina Moraru, Odysseus member from Romania, recently published a commentary on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid, C-392/22. The commentary has been published on EU Law Live, and might be of particular interest to those focusing on external borders, mutual trust, […]