The common european asylum system (CEAS) after refugee crisis

Over the past few years, the exceptional increase in the number of migrant arrivals and of asylum claims in Europe has dramatically strained the "European migration regime"1 based on the so-called managed migration approach. The rationale of this approach was to allow for managed and orderly migration (Spencer 1994), selecting immigrants according to labour market needs (COM 2005, 184). This system was undermined by a sudden and significant acceleration in the number of entries registered from 2014 onwards. The European Agenda on Migration, which was intended to be a first political response to some meaningful shortcomings of the European migration regime, has, in fact, amplified these shortcomings. The significant change in the European migration space produced by the so-called 2015 refugee crisis is at the root of this problem. The latter has been mainly a crisis of management of those new migration patterns linked to structural changes in the Euro-African political and economic regional space.