(Im)migration and Asylum Policy of the EU between Old and New Challenges

Paper analyses the European Union policy on migration, immigration and asylum in order to understand the failure of the European Union and its member state to face the actual events at the European borders. Main argument is the EU policy on management of the borders and the asylum provisions have very different policy frames and very incoherent policy outputs and both are linked to an outdated definition of “migrant” and “asylum seekers”. Some policy provisions are suggested in order to update the policy frame and to increase the efficiency of EU in managing the new stage of the global migration flows.