Refugees and the European Union- A study of the discrepancy between the asylum policies of the European Union and the human rights norm of the Geneva Refugee Convention
In the late 1990s, the member states of the European Union decided to establish a Common European Asylum System (CEAS), in order to enhance refugee protection. However, the emerging common asylum policies have been deeply criticized for breaching international norms and principles. In this thesis I argue that a discrepancy does exist between the international human rights norm expressed as the Gen
