The Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System: A Step Forward in the Protection of Asylum Seekers? IES WORKING PAPER 7/2013

The aim of this paper is to analyse what is the impact of the second phase of the creation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in the protection of rights of Asylum Seekers in the European Union. The establishment of a CEAS has been always a part of the development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Its implementation was planned in two phases: the first one, focused on the harmonisation of internal legislation on minimum common standards; the second, based on the result of an evaluation of the effectiveness of the agreed legal instruments, should improve the effectiveness of the protection granted. The five instruments adopted between 2002 and 2005, three Directives, on Qualification, Reception Conditions and Asylum Procedures, and two Regulations, the so-called “Dublin System”, were subjected to an extensive evaluation and modification, which led to the end of the recasting in 2013. The paper discusses briefly the international obligations concerning the rights of asylum seekers and continues with the presentation of the legal basis of the CEAS and its development, together with the role of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in asylum matters. The research will then focus on the development in the protection of asylum seekers after the recasting of the legislative instruments mentioned above. The paper will note that the European standards result now improved, especially concerning the treatment of vulnerable people, the quality of the application procedure, the effectiveness of the appeal, the treatment of gender issues in decision concerning procedures and reception. However, it will be also highlighted that Member States maintained a wide margin of appreciation in many fields, which can lead to the compression of important guarantees. This margin concerns, for example, the access to free legal assistance, the definition of the material support to be granted to each applicant for international protection, the access to labour market, the application of the presumptions of the “safety” of a third country. The paper will therefore stress that the long negotiations that characterised the second phase of the CEAS undoubtedly led to some progress in the protection of Asylum Seekers in the EU. However, some provisions are still in open contrast with the international obligations concerning rights of asylum seekers, while others require to the Member State consider carefully its obligation in the choice of internal policies concerning asylum matters.

Building a Capital Markets Union….or designing a financial system for the euro area? CEPS Commentary, 2 June 2015

In this CEPS Commentary, economists Anton Brender, Florence Pisani and Daniel Gros challenge the foundation on which the European Commission launched a key debate earlier this year on the development of the EU’s financial system, with publication of its Green Paper "Building a Capital Markets Union". While acknowledging that a single capital market could be useful in the European Union, they argue that it is extremely dangerous to conduct one and the same monetary policy in an area with broadly varying financial practices and structures – as the first 15 years of the euro area's history have vividly shown. They conclude that financial integration of the countries in EMU must receive top priority in a process that the rest of the European Union may then subsequently join.

Performance demonstration of the alternating current propulsion system for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

The metric system of measurement (SI).

Supersedes similar notice dated Dec. 10, 1976.

An automated photovoltaic system for the measurement of resistivity variations, in high-resistivity circular silicon slices /

Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary evaluation of the ground-water-flow system in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area, Minnesota /

"August 1982."

Geographic information system : a computer assisted approach to managing forest pest area.

"October 1983"--P. [1]

Operator's and organizational maintenance manual : radar test set AN/MPM-59 (XO-3) (forward area alerting radar system).

"May 1972."

Direct and general support maintenance manual repair parts and special tools list for test set, radar, AN/MPM-59 (X0-3), 4935-00-151-1323, (forward area alert radar system).

Includes index.

DS and GS maintenance manual : radar test set AN/MPM-59 (X0-3) (Forward Area Alerting Radar System).

"May 1972."

Operator's and organizational maintenance manual : target alert data display set AN/GSQ-137 (XO-2) : (Forward Area Alerting Radar System).

"May 1972."

Direct support and general support maintenance manual : radar set AN/MPQ-49 (XO-1) (Forward Area Alerting Radar System).

"May 1972."

Organizational, direct support and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools list including depot maintenance repair parts and special tools : radar set AN/MPQ-49 (X0-1), 1430-00-179-4199, forward area alert radar system.

Includes indexes.