Abstract

Twenty years ago, the Tampere European Council defined the objectives of the future immigration and asylum policy of the European Union: a policy which should have achieved a high level of cooperation in the management of flows and a full respect for human rights. What is the degree of realization of that program twenty years later? What impact have the many crises experienced by Europe in recent years had? Does that project survive, even in an era marked by the revival of nationalisms? Is there still room for a European immigration and asylum policy based on respect for human rights and the rule of law?