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The European Union started to coordinate and harmonise the asylum policies of
their Member States in 1999 within a common 'area of freedom, security and
justice', as stipulated by the Treaty of Amsterdam. However, the communitarisation
of asylum policies by the EU has not met its main targets, despite the installation
of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and several attempts
to implement and improve these regulations and directives by means of legislative
reforms, political programmes and administrative initiatives. Today, we are
still far from a European-wide asylum regime that implements harmonised procedures,
and grants equivalent protection titles across all Member States (Council
of the European Union, 2016a). National asylum systems and recognition rates
continue to differ widely within the EU (AIDA, 2017; EASO, 2017a).