La presa del potere in Afghanistan da parte dei talebani nell’agosto 2021 ha portato alcuni Stati membri a ritenere che il trattamento riservato alle donne e alle ragazze afghane volto a privarle dei loro diritti fondamentali equivale a persecuzione e non è quindi necessario che si proceda ad una valutazione della situazione individuale per concedere loro lo status di rifugiato. La questione è giunta recentemente alla Corte di giustizia con due cause riunite in AH e FN. Secondo l’Avvocato generale Richard De La Tour, tale pratica rientra nel margine di discrezionalità lasciato agli Stati membri dall’articolo 3 della Direttiva Qualifiche per introdurre o mantenere norme più favorevoli per determinare chi ha i requisiti per essere considerato rifugiato, nella misura in cui tali norme sono compatibili con la direttiva stessa.
The seizure of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021 has led some Member States to take the view that the treatment of Afghan women and girls aimed at depriving them of their fundamental rights amounts to persecution and therefore does not require an assessment of their individual situation necessary to grant them refugee status. The issue recently reached the Court of Justice in two joined cases in AH and FN. According to Advocate General Richard De La Tour, this practice falls within the margin of discretion left to Member States by Article 3 of the Qualification Directive to introduce or maintain more favourable rules for determining who qualifies as a refugee, insofar as those rules are compatible with the directive itself.
She is a PhD candidate in European Law at the University of Luxembourg where she works as a researcher for the Doctoral Training Unit on Enforcement in Multi-Level Regulatory Systems (DTU REMS II ), as well as at the University of Bologna School of Law (cotutelle de thèse). Her PhD research focuses on the legal remedies and the effectiveness of law enforcement tools related to migration control at the EU’s external borders. And she is mainly interested in issues related to the effectiveness of EU law, the development of EU operational action and the interference of legal orders. She graduated in Law from the University of Trento, holds an LLM in EU Law from University Paris II Panthéon Assas and she is qualified to practice as a lawyer to the Italian Bar.