http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200219-164140-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-elephant-in-the-room/ The Elephant in the Room Lübbe, Anna eng 2020-02-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Art. 3 ECHR Collective Expulsion Non Refoulement Refugee Protection Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The ECtHR’s Grand Chamber judgement N.D. and N.T. v. Spain may be perceived as a referral of two migrants from illegal to legal pathways of entry, two migrants who were not in need of protection. Those celebrating the judgement for this outcome miss its unsettling implications for the effective guarantee of the principle of non-refoulement.