The second phase of the Common European Asylum System: A brave new world – or lipstick on a pig?

Abstract:

Several years ago, the EU set itself the deadline of 2010 – later postponed to 2012 - for completing the second phase of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). Near the end of March 2013, the European Parliament (EP) and the Council (the Member States’ interior ministers) finally agreed upon the texts of the two remaining legislative measures to this end. No further EU measures on asylum (other than a revision of the current European Refugee Fund) are currently under discussion or planned for the time being. So the recently agreed rules will likely govern the issue of asylum in the EU for a number of years to come.