The paper was presented at the conference 13th Days of European Law which took place on 19 November 2015 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law. The paper analyzes common EU asylum and migration policies and emphasizes that only a smaller part of migration policy is common and harmonized. The situation is different in the field of asylum the large part of which is harmonized (with a goal of setting up of a Common European Asylum System - CEAS), however there is a problem of great differences in implementation of this system, which is visible, inter alia, from very different asylum recognition rates for nationals of the same countries, depending which EU member state considers the application. The paper critically assesses the Dublin system and shows that the latter became a tool for shifting the burden towards the states at the European periphery instead of serving the burden-sharing goal.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1102189This is one of the two lectures that I gave at the international workshop for Macedonian judges which took place in Skopje on 26-27 February 2015. In the lecture I presented the concept of indirect discrimination, practical examples illustrating how this concept differs from the concept of direct discrimination, and case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Workshop was organized by the European Commission through the TAIEX instrument.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1057389Upon the invitation of ODIHR - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) I attended a panel meeting of experts from countries on the so-called Balkan migration route. I was asked to present basic legal standards which the state must respect in dealing with this situation. I focused on whether there are rights of entry and the rights of transit guaranteed and presented a finding that these two rights are not guaranteed to irregular migrants who do not meet the conditions prescribed by law. And yet these two rights made available by the states on the migration route. It seems that the situation where a lare number of migrants wish to enter the state territory at the same time puts the state into a situation where it has to ensure entry if other international legal standards are to be met, such as the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment.
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