Reshaping the External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy: the Difficult Quest for a Comprehensive Approach

Reshaping the External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy: the Difficult Quest for a Comprehensive Approach by Roberto Cortinovis. Paper, January 2017 The increasingly protracted character of many displacement situations worldwide has led the international community to introduce...

Asylum applications in the European Union

Asylum applications in the European Union – which counts an overall population of half a billion people – have grown steadily over the last five years: they were 261,000 in 2010; 310,000 in 2011, 336,000 in 2012, 432,000 in 2013 and 628,000 in 2014. In the first quarter of 2015,...