European Union Legal Response to the Migration Crisis

Abstract

For the past years, since the Syrian civil war started, the increase of asylum seekers raised rapidly. The EU legal system wasn’t ready for such flow. To ensure the neat refugee relocation EU authorities started the amendment and supplementation of legal acts. The agreements with the third countries regarding the relocation provoked conflicts in the EU legislative system while ensuring the human rights. The right to appeal became a challenge for the European Court of Human Rights together with the Court of Justice of the European Union to ensure the fundamental rights migrants and asylum seekers. Some of the legal act proposals are still in the phase of active discussion. Ambiguity in certain aspects of relocation causes legal gaps and dissatisfaction of some member states. However, for migrants the courts represents the guarantor of justice and possibility to start the life from the new chapter. In this Master Thesis the author focused on analyzing main legal acts, which regulates the safe arrival of migrants on the continent, new proposals of EU authorities, EU agreement between the Turkey which notwithstanding the Directive and the case law established by the courts, was signed and infringement procedure against some of the EU member states.