ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to note the impact of the so-called refugee crisis on the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). The exceptional increase in arrivals and the equally exceptional rise in asylum applications in Europe have deeply worn down the European migration regime based on the method of dealing with migration called “managed migration”. This system has been undermined at the root by the sudden and strong acceleration of the number of irregular entries recorded from 2014 onwards. The European Agenda on Migration, which intended to be a first political response to some significant deficiencies of European migration regime, was a partial failure. But it is not just a problem of large numbers, there is also a problem embedded in the European asylum system as it was conceived and designed.
