N.D. and M.T. v Spain. A conservative turn in the ECTHR immigration cases?
The article concerns the recent ECtHR judgment of N.D. and M.T. v Spain, where the Court dealt with push back practices carried out by the Spanish border police at its territorial border with Morocco, namely Melilla. The judgment is highly relevant as the Court deals with the matter for the first time. Moreover, the judgment seems to represent a turning point for the Court's case-law on collective expulsion, as the Court applies a somehow conservative reasoning once faced with judging the State for a violation of the Convention.