The Consolidated Asylum and Migration Acquis: The EU Directives in an Expanded Europe

With a Preface by Frans Bouwen MA, Senior International Consultant to the The Hague Process on Refugee and Migration Policy

The year 2004 will enter the history books as the year of the enlargement of the European Union and the end of the 5-year transition period foreseen under the Treaty of Amsterdam. From 2004 onwards the issues of asylum and migration will be firmly embedded in the European Community. Minimum norms have been agreed upon. A visionary policy needs to be defined, however...