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The great novelty of the new 2020 ECHR ruling is that the applicants had not used official entry procedures and, because of their own conduct, Spanish police were justified in returning them to Morocco without examining their personal circumstances (Photo: EUobserver)

An EU migration policy revolution from the courts?

When it comes to policies on irregular migration, it is sometimes courts, not parliaments, that call the shots.

A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last month proved the point.

The court ruled that the Spanish government did not violate the principle of non-refoulment (prohibition of collective expulsions) contained in Protocol 4 o...

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Vít Novotný is a senior researcher officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think tank of the European People's Party.

The great novelty of the new 2020 ECHR ruling is that the applicants had not used official entry procedures and, because of their own conduct, Spanish police were justified in returning them to Morocco without examining their personal circumstances (Photo: EUobserver)

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Vít Novotný is a senior researcher officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think tank of the European People's Party.

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