Sweden’s all-out tightening of migration policy

As asylum and immigration figures continued to fall in 2024, the right and far right, in power since September 2022, have continued to make announcements aimed at tightening reception conditions in the Scandinavian kingdom.

Recent asylum case law of the CJEU: Distinction, Integration or Extension from ‘Mainstream’ EU law?

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London

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Introduction

While attention has been focussed
on the overhaul of EU law on asylum โ€“ which I have analysed in an upcoming
article…

The new EU asylum laws, part 6: the new Dublin rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers

 Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons(last updated 10 June 2024: changed text marked by an asterisk)Just before Christmas, the
European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consi…

The new Screening Regulation โ€“ part 5 of the analysis of new EU asylum laws

 Professor Steve
Peers, Royal Holloway University of London

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Commons(Amended on 14 May and 10 and 18 June 2024 – changed sentences marked with an asterisk)

Just before Christmas, the European
Parliament and…

Resistance is futile: the new Eurodac Regulation โ€“ part 4 of the analysis of new EU asylum laws

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of LondonPhoto credit: Rachmaninoff, via Wikimedia CommonsAmendments to this blog post since its original publication are marked by asterisks.* Most recent amendment: June 18 2024. Just before…

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 2: the Reception Conditions Directive

Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London

Photo credit: Rebecca
Harms, via Wikimedia Commons *sentences with an asterisk have been corrected or updated since the original publication of this post. Most recent update 14 May 2024.&nb…

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 1: the Qualification Regulation

 

Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London*

Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia
Commons

*sentences with an asterisk have been corrected or updated since the original publication of this post. Most recently updated 14 May 2024.&n…

Angesomโ€™s application for judicial review: the Fundamental Rights Charter makes a (shaky) comeback in Northern Ireland

 

Anurag Deb, researcher,
Queenโ€™s University Belfast

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Wikipedia
commons

 

Aman Angesom, an Eritrean
national who does not speak English, arrived in Northern Ireland in June 2021
and applied for asylum. Initially …

The new EU Resettlement Framework: the Ugly Duckling of the EU asylum acquis?

Emiliya Bratanova van Harten,
PhD candidate, Lund University

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Many may have been
surprised by the deal struck between the European Parliament and the Council of
the EU on key migration and asylum instruments on 15 Decemb…

Provisional Agreement on the recast Reception Conditions Directive: Preventing โ€˜Asylum Shoppingโ€™ and โ€˜Secondary Movementsโ€™ as the Ultimate Goal?

 

Vasiliki Apatzidou, legal
practitioner in the field of EU Asylum Law and PhD Student, Queen Mary
University of London.

Photo credit: Rebecca
Harms, via wikicommons

The current
instruments of the Common
European Asylum System (CEAS), which inc…