European Court of Justice : Towards new legal battlegrounds?

Reflections on the future of European Court of Justice rulings in light of the entry into force of the European Pact on Migration. The European Pact on Migration and Asylum is set to enter into force in June 2026, yet since its approval in June 2024, some of the changes it introduced have been the subject of radical legal battles at the local, national, and European levels. As we monitored over the past year, legal battlegrounds around border procedures started in Sicily between 2023 and 2024 – where the judges of the specialized immigration sections of Catania and Palermo had refused to validate the detention of asylum seekers from supposedly safe countries of origin – then continued at the Court of Rome – competent for the validation of detentions in Albania – and finally reached the Court of Justice of the European Union. Read the Full article here.