The main aim of this research is to holistically analyse the content and critically assess the development of EU’s ‘Common European Asylum System’ (CEAS). It is pursued in three consecutive steps. The research first offers a deeper understanding of the CEAS, a notion that despite its centrality to EU’s asylum policy lacks a precise definition. This gap forms the natural starting point of this study. The study advances its own substantial understanding, which includes the modes of implementation of the policy. Hence, it retraces the main modes of implementation in the initial policy design. As a second step, the research focuses on a principle that should be central to the design and implementation of this policy, the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility. It argues that this principle unsettles the initial administration paradigms. The third step is to analyse an element that has not been explored so far by legal literature, namely the administrative governance of CEAS, as it pertains to its implementation. On this basis it examines the institutionalisation of practical co-operation, people-sharing arrangements and EU funding. It is a study of the European administration in action in the area of asylum. I critically assess the adaptations made to the policy design since its inception, including those catapulted by the so-called refugee crisis. On this basis, the research proposes potential avenues for the future development of the asylum policy. / Doctorat en Sciences juridiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Šio darbo tikslas yra ištirti ES prieglobsčio politikos įgyvendinimą Lietuvoje instituciniu ir teisiniu aspektais. Darbe yra tiriama ES prieglobsčio politikos teisinė bazė, išskiriant pagrindinius šią politiką reglamentuojančius teisės aktus ir įgyvendinančias institucijas. Taip pat yra atliekama dabartinės Lietuvos prieglobsčio politikos situacijos analizė bei nagrinėjama kaip Lietuvoje yra harmonizuojami be įgyvendinami ES prieglobsčio politikos teisės aktai. Empiriniu tyrimu buvo siekiama įvertinti ES prieglobsčio politikos įgyvendinimo Lietuvoje institucinės ir teisinės bazės probleminius aspektus. Šiuo metu yra įgyvendinamas antrasis BEPS kūrimo etapas, kuriuo yra numatyta iki 2015 m. liepos mėn. galutinai suvienodinti ES valstybių narių prieglobsčio sistemas. Lietuvos narystė ES nebuvo reikšmingas kriterijus pabėgėlių srautų padidėjimui šalyje, Lietuva tapo patraukli kaip tranzito valstybė. Didžioji dalis ES prieglobsčio direktyvų nuostatų atsispindi UTPĮ, tačiau jų yra ir poįstatyminiuose teisės aktuose. Dalies ES prieglobsčio direktyvų nuostatos yra perkeltos teisingai, tačiau kai kuriose srityse direktyvos turėjo neigiamą poveikį, ypač dėl papildomų pabėgėlio statuso netaikymo ir pasibaigimo nuostatų. Vertinant iš kitos pusės ES prieglobsčio direktyvų įgyvendinimas turėjo teigiamą poveikį, kaip, pavyzdžiui, nemokamos teisinės pagalbos prieglobsčio prašytojams įteisinimas, įvestos platesnės galimybės pasinaudoti švietimo ir sveikatos apsaugos sistema ir pan... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of this paper is to analyse the implementation of EU asylum policy in Lithuania by institutional and legal aspects. This paper analyses the legal basis of EU asylum policy, marking the main laws which regulate EU asylum policy and its implementing institutions. It also examines the current situation of Lithuanian asylum policy and how the legal basis of EU asylum policy is harmonized and implemented in Lithuanian system. The empirical research was aimed at evaluating the problemical aspects of institutional and legal basis in the implementation of EU asylum policy in Lithuania. At the moment the second stage of common EU asylum policy system is being exercised. In conformity with it, the main asylum system procedures in EU member states should be equalized by July 2015. Lithuania‘s EU memebership was not a significant criterion for the increase of refugees‘ flows in the country but Lithuania has become attractive as a transit country. The main part of the provisions of EU asylum directives reflect in the law on the legal status of foreigners, though they also reflect in secondary legislation acts. The most of provisions are transfered correctly, however in some areas directives has had a negative impact, especially concerning the provisions about additional refugee status. On the other hand, the implementation of EU asylum directives has provided a positive effect in such areas as the validation of free legal assistance to asylum seekers, introducing wider... [to full text]

When managing the reception and relocation of refugees within the EU, it is unsurprising that negotiating common policy and burden-sharing schemes are complex, contentious tasks (Thielemann 2003; Naurin 2015). Indeed, the individual geographic, political and economic positioning of member states are reflected in larger power dynamics within the EU, further complicating resolution on solidarity initiatives in asylum policy (Duarte and Pascariu 2017, Basile and Olmastroni 2020, Bauböck 2018). Within this thesis, I argue that these power dynamics are evidenced along EU core and periphery lines (i.e., states with external borders and those with primarily internal borders) and within negotiation discourses (Jäntti and Klasche 2021; Zaun 2018). By conducting a critical discourse analysis (CDA) with statements from the French and Greek national parliaments, as well the EU Commission statement, this project is able to pursue a comparative analysis of discursive approaches and highlight differences in discourses and power positionings. This, in turn, can also help us to examine why standstills in asylum policy negotiation proceedings persist. The structure of this thesis is in line with previous research which has examined how power and agency of member states is constructed through linguistic framing (Mainwaring 2014), and literature investigating complications that emerge with common immigration policy within the EU and the supranationally (Omelaniuk 2012, Hampshire 2013, Bauböck 2018).