3.2.5.1. Differences in protection policies
The Dutch Council of State overruled its series of judgments from 2022,334noting that the policy of Danish authorities had changed. There were no longer obvious and fundamental differences between the two countries’ protection policies. First instance administrative courts in the Netherlands followed this reasoning when assessing transfers to Denmark.335
The Finnish Supreme Court referred questions for a preliminary ruling prompted by the case of a Syrian applicant who had been given subsidiary protection in Denmark, which was not extended after a change in the policy of the Danish authority.