Court name: Council of the State
State: Greece
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The case concerns the rejection of an application for re-acquisition of Greek nationality by a woman who voluntarily renounced her nationality following the acquisition of foreign nationality by marriage, in spite of the fact that her husband was allegedly a stateless person of Palestinian origin. The court ruled that the competent authorities had acted legitimately by rejecting the application.

Court name: Administrative Court of Luxembourg
State: Luxembourg
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The applicant appplicant was born in Russia and renounced his Russian nationality in 2000. He applied for a statelessness status in Luxembourg in 2008, but it was discovered that he had applied for asylum status in the Netherlands in 2006, which was rejected, so Luxembourg transferred the applicant to the Netherlands under the Dublin regulation. The applicant returned several times to Luxembourg and was sent back to the Netherlands. He made a repeated application for statelessness status in 2014, where the courts accepted his argument that statelessness status determination doesn't fall within the scope of the Dublin regulations, and the court also accepted that his voluntary renunciation of Russian nationality does not exclude him from protection under the 1954 Convention.