Policy toward asylum-seekers has been controversial. Since the late 1990s, the EU has been developing a Common European Asylum System, but without clearly identifying the basis for cooperation. Providing a safe haven for refugees can be seen as a public good and this provides the rationale for...

The new European Commission will inherit an impasse in efforts to reform the European asylum system as well as concerns about practices in the management of the EU's external border that contradict humanitarian standards and may even be illegal. While the number of asylum seekers who manage to...

International refugee law is binding upon all European Union member states, however European regional instruments, relocation theories and practices may diverge from the 1951 Geneva Convention and 1967 Protocol. This may lead to the violation of the ius cogens norm of the principle of...

The 2021-27 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is facing a number of challenges. This paper addresses the most pressing ones and offers suggestions and ideas on how to deal with them. The challenges addressed are:A. solidarity, budget distribution and cost-sharing between the EU and member...

The entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam on 1 May 1999 marked the transformation of the legal framework where the process of European integration in the field of asylum was to take place. This paper shall focus on the analysis of the legal issues derived from the establishment of an...

This Paper discusses the issues of forced migration, asylum, and internal displacement in the context of armed conflicts, and investigates the relationship between the humanitarian crisis resulting from them and armed conflicts, especially in light of the fact that the issues of refugees and...

This contribution examines the impact of two trends in the external dimension of the EU’s migration and asylum policies on the judicial protection of individuals: informalisation on the one hand and operationalisation on the other. The first is exemplified by the EU-Turkey Statement, known as...

The current European Union (EU) asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go...