ABSTRACT

As a response to the increase in the number of refugees arriving in the European Union territory since 2014, European Commission has implemented the European Agenda on Migration. Marco Cellini argues that the new system, despite being promising for resolving the problems from the point of view of Member States, overlooks the perspective of asylum seekers. As an alternative, Cellini proposes a novel policy that could supplement the European Agenda on Migration. The novel policy consists in enlarging the set of rights granted to refugees with several rights classically attached to the concept of citizenship while harmonising laws and practices at European level.