My thoughts on Australia’s latest offshore deal with Nauru www.smh.com.au/national/sec...

How do institutional actors compete and cooperate across home affairs and foreign affairs departments, when developing EU international cooperation on migration? Happy to share some findings here: doi.org/10.1111/imig...

The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission

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With scholars from @universiteitgent.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.be, @uclouvain.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, UHasselt and @universitedeliege.bsky.social (including @celineromainville.bsky.social, @jogchumv.bsky.social and @belgianrefugee.bsky.social) gathered by E Desmet and D Vanheule

Judicial independence is key to democracy and fair proceedings. Yet, some of the measures announced by the new 🇧🇪 government threaten the independence of Belgian asylum and migration courts. With colleagues from 🦁 and 🐓, we explain why here shorturl.at/aTwJM (FR) and here shorturl.at/EMdFk (NL)

Verschillende juristen waaronder @lucleboeuf.bsky.social, @koenlemmen.bsky.social, @jogchumv.bsky.social en @belgianrefugee.bsky.social uiten hun bezorgdheden over de plannen van Arizona voor de RvV.

Deze plannen raken aan de fundamenten van de rechtsstaat.

www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

✍️ In this paper, which is upcoming in the Revue du droit des étrangers (FR), I analyse the case-law of European Courts. In various rulings, the CJEU and the ECtHR required Belgian Immigration Courts to consider all relevant facts and circumstances ex nunc. More here: hdl.handle.net/2268/326539 3/3

✅ Based on a large consultation with the relevant actors, the independent expert Commission (which was in charge of overseeing the codification of Belgian migration laws) identified the ex tunc requirement as a major obstacle to fair and efficient proceedings. 2/3

❗Migrants' lives keep evolving while waiting for a Court ruling on their appeal against decisions, which relate to the regularity of their stay.

❓Yet, in Belgium, judges control administrative decisions ex tunc: they must disregard circumstances that occurred after the decision was adopted. 1/3