resilience to future crises, in line with its June 2017 conclusions. The European Union has proved to be ineffective in covering the needs of millions of people who seek asylum, while trying to satisfy the security claims of the Member States. "The reform of the common European asylum system is a fundamental part of our comprehensive migration policy and therefore of utmost importance for Europe. our Common European Asylum System (CEAS) needs reform. Furthermore, as things stand, asylum In this situation, the need to reform the common European asylum system is pressing. ECRE has published a Policy Note identifying key implementation priorities and recommendations for EU measures in order to make the Common European Asylum System function.. Instead, it places a disproportionate responsibility on frontline Member States. There are proposals on the table being prepared by the Commission and Slovakia has announced that it will present its own proposal on flexible or – as the Slovaks wish to call it – effective solidarity in December. Source: EASO. The Reform of the Common European Asylum System: Between Recast and New Regulation By Salvatore Nicolosi Twenty years after the European Council of Tampere that in 1999 set out the political roadmap to establish a Common European Asylum System (CEAS), the European Union and its Member States still struggle to design a solid and future-proof system. Reform of the Common European Asylum System . About two and a half years after the peak of the refugee crisis, the relevant EU institutions are about to decide on new major rules concerning the reception and treatment of asylum seekers, as well as the allocation of asylum applications among member states. The stalemate in the negotiations on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) over the past three years has demonstrated the inability of European Union (EU) Member States to find common ground on asylum … 2 | April 12, 2018 EU Monitor . The EU institutions have decided to reform the Common European Asylum System to coordinate the procedures, requirements, and conditions for acceptance, aiming to harmonise the national legislative frameworks. The current framework does not cater for times of extraordinary migratory pressure and does not ensure a fair sharing of responsibility among all Member States in such cases. Towards the reform of the Common European Asylum System . Get PDF (370 KB) Abstract. The reform of the Common European Asylum System: fifteen recommendations from a sexual orientation and gender identity perspective . At its meeting in October 2017, the European Council welcomed the progress achieved so far on the reform of the Common European Asylum System and called for further convergence towards an agreement which strikes the right balance between responsibility and solidarity and ensures. On 13 July 2016, the European Commission introduced four major proposals to complete the reform of the Common European Asylum System in order to move towards a fully efficient, fair and humane asylum policy - one which can function effectively both in … To further refine CEAS, in 2016 the EU Commission published a report, Communication Towards a Reform of the Common European Asylum System and Enhancing Legal Avenues to Europe… The current reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and claims for asylum on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity • Since the 1990s, the European Union (EU) has slowly developed an increasingly sophisticated body of asylum law and policy, known as the Common European Asylum System … By Nuno Ferreira, Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin and Nina Held.