This document contains a short description of relevant instruments concerning asylum and refugees, on a global and on a European level, mainly the definition of a refugee, procedural safeguards, accelerated procedures, the safe country of origin and safe third country principles, manifestly...

Report A presents the results of the comparative analysis of legal rules and practices governing reception conditions for asylum seekers in the 15 member states of the European Union. The comparative analysis has generally been carried out in three stages with the purpose of identifying patterns...

On 4 May and 13 July 2016, the Commission presented two comprehensive sets of legislative proposals to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). These include a number of amended and newly introduced provisions related to children (unaccompanied and accompanied). This extract serves as an...