This article summarizes the difficulties faced by the European Union accession driven asylum system development process, known as Phare Horizontal Asylum (PHA) programme, and its key component, the Round Table process, and reflects upon some preliminary results. The EU accession process for the...

1. Introduction -- 2. European Integration's First Three Decades. The Challenge of Immigration. Early Steps: Freedom of Movement for Whom? -- 3. 1985-1991: High Hopes and Community Leadership. 1985: Putting Immigration on the Agenda. Guidelines on Migration. The Single European Act. Article 8a...

The paper identifies a policy inconsistency between the EU's asylum and the EU's labour migration policies and makes a call for stronger convergence. The analysis starts off by setting out the EU's current and future economic challenges with a view to its ageing population and low fertility...

We delineate a non-co-operative game in which the countries of Europe implement restrictive measures to reduce the inflow of asylum seekers in their territories. These restrictions may divert the asylum seekers towards other countries, with spill over effects. Attention focuses on the role of...

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection crisis and its aftermath. In the first part of the paper, we examine the consequences of...

In the last two decades, European countries, while working for the establishment of a Common European Asylum System (CEAS) to harmonise the legal frameworks of the member states and establish common minimum standards, have rather pursued domestic goals at times, imposing restrictive policies on...

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection crisis and its aftermath. In the first part of the paper, we examine the consequences of...