CESifo DICE Report 4/2016 (Winter): Asylum Policy

Section: Forum – Asylum Policy

The surge of refugees into European Union countries since 2015 has highlighted the lack of any coherent system of asylum policies to effectively master this challenge. The absence of this institutional framework leads to a chaotic and divided way of handling the refugee situation, which has been discussed controversially in politics and in the media in all of the EU countries affected by it. In order to rationalise the heated debate, it is indispensable to analyse what went wrong in the European asylum policy and to find a system that works. The articles in the rubric Forum of the CESifo DICE Report 4/2016 analyse various aspects of the debate over asylum policies.