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  • Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Eva Sevrin

Restoring Balance: A Critical Response to the Open Letter on Migration and Human Rights

June 17, 2025

By Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Eva Sevrin On 22 May 2025, a coalition of nine European states, spearheaded by Denmark and Italy, issued an open letter calling for a shift in the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) interpretative approach in the field of migration and in cases concerning ‘irregular migration’ and the expulsion of […]

  • Harriet Ní Chinnéide

The Expulsion of Migrants: The Court Rules in Four Cases against Denmark this September

October 20, 2023

by Harriet Ní Chinnéide This September, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) delivered four rulings in cases involving the expulsion of settled migrants from Denmark. In two of them, the Court found in favour of the State and in the other two, it found a violation of Article 8 (right to respect […]