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Reform of the Common European Asylum System

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2019

Abstract

The mass inflow of higher number of third country nationals to the European Union in 2015 revealed the weakness of Common European Asylum System (CEAS), in particular the lack of solidarity between the member states. European Commission has decided to reform CEAS by several legislative proposals.

The article focuses on several aspects of the proposals of Dublin IV regulation, qualification regulation and procedural regulation. Some of the proposals were completely or partially abandoned during negotiation, although they were providing solution for fundamental questions connected with functionality of the current system.

Questions that will return in case future refugee (migration) crisis come up. As of today, it cannot be predicted in what form and whether at all the CEAS reform will be eventually adopted.

The unresolved questions will be on the agenda again, together with another mass influx wave at the latest, and thus it seems worth analysing them.