Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256407 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 32/2016
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
On 18 March 2016, the EU member states and Turkey concluded an agreement on the return of persons having arrived in Greece irregularly - in the hope of reducing the number of irregular migrants coming into the EU. After months of member states being unable to find a common response to the rising numbers of new arrivals, the agreement is considered a breakthrough by many observers. In fact, the agreement stands for a broader shift in EU refugee policy, which now focuses on the themes of border security, camps and quotas. This goes along with a reorientation from the previously prevalent individual asylum application towards a system where groups of refugees are accepted voluntarily (resettlement). This trend carries serious risks for refugee protection globally. At the same time, however, new forms of cooperation are taking shape that could strengthen the EU asylum system. (SWP Comments)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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