The external processing of asylum seekers Member states’ migration talking shop. EPC Commentary, 25 January 2018

McNamara, Frank (2018) The external processing of asylum seekers Member states’ migration talking shop. EPC Commentary, 25 January 2018. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

External processing involves applications for international protection being processed beyond the European Union’s (EU) external borders, in third states. An individual who has been processed externally would then, in theory, be resettled to an EU member state. The reality is that external processing has, thus far, only served as a talking shop for member states. Without proper examination of what the policy could add and of the political, legal and institutional hurdles involved, external processing will simply remain as member states’ go-to ‘crisis’ policy without any real intention of ever pursuing it.

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