With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

This study on "Services of general Interest in the Internal Market" was commissioned by the European Parliament with the aim of preparing background material and advising Members of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on legal and economic issues...