Asylum Politics and Asylum Law in the European Union

It can be said that the idea of asylum is as old as the dawn of humanity. Perhaps, this is why there is a panoply of legislation and literature (international and/or European) which directly and/or indirectly characterises this phenomenon. However, in our opinion, a true Asylum Law does not effectively exist in the European Union, at least, in the sense that it is traditionally considered, as a set of harmonious and correlated rules. What we have are several asylum policies, which vary among the different Member States