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A Turning Point for EU Asylum Governance: Jurisdiction and Rights After Alace and Canpelli Case

AB İltica Yönetişiminde Bir Dönüm Noktası: Alace ve Canpelli Kararı Sonrasında Yetki ve Haklar

Sibel Safi(DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HUKUK FAKÜLTESİ)0000-0002-6689-4639
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2026-04-20
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The article concludes that Alace and Canpelli sets important limits on Member States’ ability to insulate externalisation policies from judicial scrutiny, but that stronger doctrinal and institutional safeguards are needed to prevent the transformation of extraterritorial territories into spaces of diminished rights.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This article examines how the Court of Justice of the European Union’s judgment in Alace and Canpelli (Joined Cases C-758/24 and C-759/24) reshapes the legal parameters of extraterritorial asylum processing within the European Union.
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Key Findings & Data:Building on Italy’s offshore cooperation with Albania for the processing and detention of asylum seekers intercepted at sea, the article argues that the safe country of origin concept and the use of accelerated border procedures cannot neutralise fundamental rights guarantees, even when codified in domestic legislation.
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Conclusion & Impact:The article concludes that Alace and Canpelli sets important limits on Member States’ ability to insulate externalisation policies from judicial scrutiny, but that stronger doctrinal and institutional safeguards are needed to prevent the transformation of extraterritorial territories into spaces of diminished rights.
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⚙️Variables:ülke dışı sığınma prosedürleri · güvenli menşe ülke · hızlandırılımış sınır prosedürleri

Abstract

This article examines how the Court of Justice of the European Union’s judgment in Alace and Canpelli (Joined Cases C-758/24 and C-759/24) reshapes the legal parameters of extraterritorial asylum processing within the European Union. Building on Italy’s offshore cooperation with Albania for the processing and detention of asylum seekers intercepted at sea, the article argues that the safe country of origin concept and the use of accelerated border procedures cannot neutralise fundamental rights guarantees, even when codified in domestic legislation. The Alace and Canpelli judgment confirms that designations of safe countries of origin are subject to full and ex nunc judicial review and that applicants and courts must have access to the underlying country-of-origin information sources on which legislative presumptions of safety are based. Reading this jurisprudence together with ECtHR case law on non-refoulement, arbitrary detention and effective remedies—including Saadi v United Kingdom and S.H. v Malta—the article shows that extraterritorial schemes such as the Italy–Albania agreement risk producing “accountability gaps” and chain refoulement in violation of EU law, the ECHR and the 1951 Refugee Convention. It contends that offshore processing arrangements displace, rather than share, protection responsibilities and normalise legally opaque forms of migration governance at the EU’s periphery. The article concludes that Alace and Canpelli sets important limits on Member States’ ability to insulate externalisation policies from judicial scrutiny, but that stronger doctrinal and institutional safeguards are needed to prevent the transformation of extraterritorial territories into spaces of diminished rights.

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Bu makale, Avrupa Birliği Adalet Divanı’nın Alace and Canpelli kararının (Birleştirilmiş Davalar C-758/24 ve C-759/24) Avrupa Birliği içinde ülke dışı sığınma prosedürlerinin hukuki çerçevesini nasıl yeniden şekillendirdiğini incelemektedir. Denizde kurtarılan sığınmacıların sığınma başvurularının İtalya’nın Arnavutluk ile yürüttüğü offshore iş birliği kapsamında işleme alınması ve gözaltında tutulması uygulamasından hareketle, makale güvenli menşe ülke kavramının ve hızlandırılmış sınır prosedürlerinin—ulusal mevzuatta düzenlenmiş olsa dahi—temel hak güvencelerini ortadan kaldıramayacağını savunmaktadır. Alace and Canpelli kararı, güvenli menşe ülke belirlemelerinin tam ve ex nunc yargısal denetime tabi olduğunu ve başvuranlar ile mahkemelerin, güvenli ülke varsayımının dayandığı ülke-menşeli bilgi kaynaklarına erişiminin sağlanması gerektiğini teyit etmektedir. Bu içtihat, AİHM’nin geri gönderme yasağı, keyfi gözaltı ve etkili başvuru hakkına ilişkin kararları—Saadi/Birleşik Krallık ve S.H./Malta dâhil—ile birlikte okunduğunda, İtalya–Arnavutluk anlaşması gibi ülke toprakları dışı modellerin AB hukuku, AİHS ve 1951 Mülteci Sözleşmesi ile bağdaşmayan hesap verebilirlik boşlukları ve zincir refoulement riskleri doğurduğu ortaya çıkmaktadır. Makale, bu tür offshore düzenlemelerin koruma sorumluluklarını paylaşmak yerine başka yere kaydırdığını ve AB’nin çevre bölgelerinde hukuken göç yönetişiminde gri bir alan biçimini normalleştirdiğini ileri sürmektedir. Sonuç olarak çalışma, Alace and Canpelli’nin üye devletlerin dışsallaştırma politikalarını yargısal denetimden yalıtma kapasitesini önemli ölçüde sınırladığını, ancak ülke dışı alanların hakların zayıfladığı mekânlara dönüşmesini önlemek için daha güçlü doktrinsel ve kurumsal güvencelere ihtiyaç duyulduğunu savunmaktadır .

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Safi, S. (2026). A Turning Point for EU Asylum Governance: Jurisdiction and Rights After Alace and Canpelli Case. Uluslararası Kültürel ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, Cilt: 12 Sayı: 1. https://doi.org/10.46442/intjcss.1826668

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