Immigration policy in european union: still bringing up the walls for fortress Europe?

Immigration and asylum policies in the European Union have entered into a new period. The author sums up the most important achievements and failures of the EU’s efforts to creat a common European asylum and immigration system, and she evaluates the new Hague Programme of the European Council (Novembre 2004) in the light of the hitherto existing policies. She concludes that the European Council’s new programme lags behind the more promising guidelines of its predecessor of Tampere. Read
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