nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230708-111020-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230708s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230708-111020-0 doi eng 342 23 Simentić Popović, Janja Author aut (orcid)0009-0007-6071-6595 The Dangers of Conflation Simentić Popović, Janja Verfassungsblog 2023-07-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On May 17th 2023 Advocate General de la Tour handed down the Opinion in case C-402/22. It addresses the meaning of “particularly serious crime” found in Article 14 (4) (b) of the 2011 Qualification Directive, which sets out the grounds for revocation or refusal to grant refugee status under EU law. This provision refers to “refugees delinquents” and introduces security concerns of states as the ground for depriving persons of their refugee status. In practice, it opens the question of how to treat refugees that committed certain crime(s) after they obtained refugee status. In this blog I detail the AG’s answer to that question and raise one overriding concern regarding Article 14 QD. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Union Refugee Protection Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-dangers-of-conflation/ raw object