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The Europeanisation of Asylum law
Pifflová, Viktorie ; Pítrová, Lenka (advisor) ; Říha, Michal (referee)
The Europeanisation of Asylum law Abstract The content of this thesis focuses on the development of the European Union asylum policy, as the youngest but fastest developing EU policy. As the field of asylum law is highly influenced by the incorporation of EU legislation into the national legal orders of the Member States, this legal area can be described as strongly Europeanised. This thesis aims to document the process of Europeanisation of asylum law through the construction of a regional subsystem of refugee protection in the European area, called the Common European Asylum System, or CEAS for short. The thesis is divided into an introduction, seven chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter explains the basic concepts with which the thesis works, as well as emphasizes the necessity to consider the field of asylum law through the prism of three layers which mutually influence and complement each other. These layers are of the international, EU and national law. For this reason, the most important international legal pillars supporting the EU asylum acquis are mentioned. The following chapters deal with the very concept of the Common European Asylum System and EU asylum policy, in an attempt to capture the underlying conceptual ideas behind the need to build this system. As the CEAS was built...
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