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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 11d

Uganda has passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world and is described as a living hell for lgbtq+ people. Meanwhile, the Netherlands strikes a deal with the Ugandan government to send rejected asylum seekers there.

Uganda passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws, lgbt people describe it as living hell

Netherlands strikes deal to send rejected asylum seekers to uganda

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 13d

Opinie: De universiteit is geen talkshowtafel

www.volkskrant.nl

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · 29d

📚 UN Global Compacts on Migration & Refugees: Where do they stand today?

New report from @felixpeerboom.bsky.social, @liliantsourdi.bsky.social & @gettingthekenksout.bsky.social, with support from Andrey Makarychev.

🧵 A quick thread:

Transforming Global Migration Governance Through and Beyond the Global Compacts - Research Report | ENSURED

The UN’s Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees create room for dialogue, but remain non-binding and underfunded. With limited political will for reform, their role will likely be confined to forum...

www.ensuredeurope.eu

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 Excited to share the publication of our @ensured.bsky.social report

✍️ In the report @liliantsourdi.bsky.social, @gettingthekenksout.bsky.social, and I analyse the effectiveness, robustness, and democratic credentials of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees

For those interested, see:

Transforming Global Migration Governance Through and Beyond the Global Compacts - Research Report | ENSURED

The UN’s Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees create room for dialogue, but remain non-binding and underfunded. With limited political will for reform, their role will likely be confined to forum...

www.ensuredeurope.eu

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Aug 28

👀 The latest batch of IJRL case law summaries has been published

✍️ For those interested in recent judicial developments, have a look at the summaries prepared by our team through the link below

🤝 ... And as always, if a decision comes out in your country that should be included, please reach out!

IJRL Case Law Summaries

Prepared by the Case Law Editorial Team: Aidan Hammerschmid (Coordinating Editor), Brian Barbour, Regina Jefferies, and Tamara Wood from the Kaldor Centre

doi.org

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jun 27

Italy's attempt to offshore asylum processing to Albania has made its way to the ECJ with a preliminary reference by the Italian Court of Cassation.

ANDREINA DE LEO examines the fictions and future of Italy's model of externalization.

verfassungsblog.de/managing-mig...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · Jun 16

Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ | by Niccolò Ridi and Matina Papadaki

Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ

On 19 May 2025, Lithuania instituted proceedings against Belarus before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging violations of the 2000 Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Se...

www.ejiltalk.org

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Jun 3

Judgment also includes insights on 🇪🇺 #emergencylaw and #instrumentalisation

VG: Instrumentation practices do not, without further details, justify an invocation of Art 72 TFEU
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Dismisses Gov’s appeal to COM(2024)570, simply noting that EC is not empowered to allow MS to set aside secondary law

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Jun 3

🇩🇪 Excellent analysis of yesterday’s VG judgement re the unlawfulness of turning away asylum seekers

Yet another reminder that, for the law, any non-empirically substantiated asylum "crisis" rhetoric is nothing more than just that

Critical insight, also for the upcoming election campaign in 🇳🇱!

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jun 3

Dass die Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Grenzen rechtswidrig sind, ist nun gerichtlich bestätigt. Auch eine Notlage wurde nicht substanziell begründet.

MAXIMILIAN PICHL (@maxpichl.bsky.social‬) bespricht den Beschluss und erklärt, warum Ausstrahlungswirkung über den Einzelfall hinaus besteht.

Zitatkachel des Autors Maximilian Pichl mit dem Inhalt: "Dass die Bundesregierung in diesem zentralen Verfahren weder rechtliche noch empirische Argumente auf ihrer Seite hat, ist bereits jetzt offensichtlich."

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just when I thought my PIL chapter was done… they pull me back in 👀 ⚖️

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · May 27

Greek coast guards charged over migrant deaths
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck

Seventeen coastguards have been charged by a Greek naval court over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · May 20

If sending asylum seekers to countries they have never been to, and have no connection with, is „respecting the EU’s values“, then I‘m really not sure what these values are anymore. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission proposes to facilitate the application of the safe third country concept

Today, the Commission proposes rules that will facilitate Member States\' application of the safe third country concept.

ec.europa.eu

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · May 5

Hot off the press: ENSURED’s first 5 research reports! 🥳🎉

Multilateralism: What's working, what isn’t & where is room for reform?

A deep dive:
🛠 WTO reform
🌱 UNFCCC decision-making
💉 IP-Public Health nexus
⚖️ UN HRC
💻 Cyberspace governance

Read the reports 👉 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · Apr 16

Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike!
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...

Woensdag duizenden stakers naar Maastricht voor protest tegen onderwijsbezuinigingen

Woensdag ligt het hoger onderwijs in Maastricht plat. Duizenden docenten, onderzoekers, studenten en werknemers van het hoger onderwijs staken tegen de heilloze onderwijsbezuinigingen van het kabinet....

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Mar 31

👀 The newest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law is out

✍️ As the newest member of the IJRL's Case Law Editorial Team, I'll contribute with summaries covering Europe and the UK

🤝 Whenever a decision comes out in your country that you believe should be included, then please reach out

Case Law Summaries

Prepared by Aidan Hammerschmid (Coordinating Editor), Brian Barbour, Regina Jefferies, and Tamara Wood, from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee La

doi.org

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · Mar 27

Join our HYBRID @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social Jean Monnet #migration lecture w/Anuscheh Farahat @univie.ac.at 🗓️8th April 11:00 CET: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/jean-... @profjacob.bsky.social l @sarahtas.bsky.social @felixpeerboom.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @ensured.bsky.social

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Mar 13

🔔Please join the next MILE lecture 🔔

🗣️ Prof. Daniel Thym will discuss the Role of National Courts and their Interaction with the CJEU in Migration (including Asylum)

📅 18 March 2025

⏰ 11.00-12.30

📍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social + online

👉Registration: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/jean-...

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Feb 17

💼 Come join us @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social!

Our faculty has a vacancy for two PhD positions in migration law and governance for participation in an ERC-funded research project on the enforcement of EU migration law.

Closing date: 09-03-2025

For more info, follow the link below:

PhD Researchers in Migration Law and Governance

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Not on Our Border Watch @ourborderwatch.bsky.social · Jan 31

On Tuesday, 4 February at 09:00, the CJEU Grand Chamber will hear a landmark case against Frontex, addressing the crucial question: Can Frontex be held accountable for its role in illegal pushbacks – a practice systematically employed at the EU’s external borders? We will cover the hearing live 🔊

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · Jan 14

HYBRID launch of our JIRS SI (Federica Zardo co-ed.) on #Migration governance through funding! ⏰20th Jan. 15:30-17:00 CET www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/node/61255. OA intro: doi.org/10.1080/1556... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @jpcassarino.bsky.social @andreinadeleo.bsky.social

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Jan 13

🔔Fellow migration law aficionados, please join the next Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Panel event🔔

📅 Date: 20 January 2025
⏰ Time: 15:30 - 17:00
📍 Location: @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social + online

👉 For more info and registration: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/jean-...

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Dec 19

⚖️ Wat zeggen de EU verdragen over 'asielcrises' en in hoeverre zou een Nederlands beroep op deze regels van het 'EU noodrecht' kans van slagen hebben?

Het is die vraag die ik analyseer in mijn bijdrage aan 'de Hofvijver', maandelijkse uitgave van het @montesquieuinst.bsky.social

Interesse? Zie:

De nationale uitzonderingstrek en de (vergeten) rol van het EU noodrecht in ‘asielcrises’

Vorig jaar rond deze tijd leefde in Brussel het idee dat er vanaf 2024 een periode van stabiliteit op Europees migratie- en asielgebied zou aanbreken. In …

www.montesquieu-instituut.nl

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Dec 11

Should this part of the comm. then merely be seen as VDL pandering to disgruntled MS, knowing full well that any actual triggering of 72 will likely fail before the Court?

If so, another fine day for the rule of law in the EU 🤦‍♂️

To be continued, I suppose…

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Dec 11

EC notes that such action would be “under the control of the Court of Justice”.

The same court that ruled in C-72/22 PPU, MA [para. 74] that MS could not rely on 72, as current rules already enable them to protect public order/nat. security without requiring triggering emergency Treaty provisions

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · Dec 11

Notable development 🇪🇺👀

While rationale of EU responses so far (in part) was avoidance of ad hoc domestic measures, in today’s comm. on ‘weaponisation’ EC itself suggests MS may invoke Treaty provisions (Art. 72 TFEU) to “go further than what is currently provided for by EU secondary legislation” 🤔

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