Discovering the institutions in Europe: the DGI of the Council of Europe

Our journey through the institutions of Europe continues, and this time we go inside the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organisation, as explained in the first part of this section. The Council of Europe‘s mandate par excellence is the promotion of fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law within its 47 member states. Large […]

THE DUBLIN REGULATION: An history studded with modifications and criticisms

On the 15th of June 1990 the Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities (as the European Union was called in the past), better known as The Dublin Convention or Regulation, was approved. This document was a fully-fledged international treaty, signed […]