Criminalisation of seeking asylum: The first month of implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum has been marked by arbitrary arrest, detention and criminalisation of refugees, collapse of procedures, and suspension of registration of asylum applications.
Common European Asylum System (CEAS) (13)
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) consists of the body of EU legislation on the treatment of asylum seekers, as reformed under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Here you will find RSA analyses, reports and legal interventions on the implementation of CEAS in Greece, the erosion of safeguards and the impact on refugee protection.
What is the Common European Asylum System (CEAS)?
11 JUL 2024
New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Impermissible regression of standards for asylum seekers
The reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS)
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is at dire risk of dismantlement in view of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
The major protection risks attached to the reform. Webinar organised by the Border Violence Monitoring Network
The Greek discourse and the consequences expected from the reform of the “Common European Asylum System” (CEAS)
Reject the Use of Legal Loopholes in EU Asylum Law Reforms
The Council of the European Union sets impermissible restrictions on refugees’ access to asylum procedures in Europe.
The undersigned NGOs strongly oppose the introduction and use of the concept of instrumentalisation and its codification in EU law;
The organisations highlight the need to ensure that asylum seekers to whom the safe third country concept has been applied have their applications promptly examined on the merits and are provided with respective legal status and adequate reception conditions, as well as to safeguard the integrity of the Common European Asylum System against systematic non-compliance.
The European Commission tabled legislative proposals to amend the Schengen Borders Code and to address so-called “instrumentalisation” in migration and asylum, two months after 12 Member States, including Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, requested the “adaptation of EU law to new realities” and after the European Council called on the Commission to take legislative measures.
Greece’s decision to suspend access to its asylum process in March 2020 as a response to pressure from Turkey set a dangerous precedent for the Common European Asylum System. This…
21 JUL 2026
A mother and her two children arrested upon seeking asylum, a couple arbitrarily detained for a month: Two stories from the first month of the implementation of the New Pact
21 OCT 2024
11 Questions and Answers on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS)
11 JUL 2024
New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Impermissible regression of standards for asylum seekers
18 DEC 2023
The finish line of the end of the Common European Asylum System?
1 DEC 2023
CEAS: Lowering the level of protection for the asylum seekers (video)
20 SEP 2023
CEAS: “Breaches of core legal principles are going to become the new normal”
14 JUL 2023
Joint Statement: NGOs call on Member States and European Parliament: Go no Lower: Reject the Use of Legal Loopholes in EU Asylum Law Reforms
14 JUN 2023
The EU Council quagmire of procedures is a dire threat to the right to asylum
14 SEP 2022
Joint Statement: NGOs call on Member States: Agreeing on the Instrumentalisation Regulation will be the Final Blow to a COMMON European Asylum System (CEAS) in Europe
8 MAR 2022
Civil society urges for European Commission action for refugees in trapped in “safe third country” procedures in Greece
18 JAN 2022
Schengen reform: The European Commission dismantles even basic safeguards of the Common European Asylum System through unacceptable rule of law deviations
18 NOV 2021
The right to asylum in the context of “instrumentalisation” – Lessons from Greece
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