This case study of the evolvement of the so-called Dublin II Regulation on asylum demonstrates the role of Council-specific informal rules and procedures in facilitating intergovernmental agreement. The paper addresses a Rationalist "puzzle", namely the question why the Justice and Home Affairs...

The Dublin Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities was adopted in 1990. Its implementation has met a number of problems, and in the treaty of Amsterdam, the Member states agreed to replace...

The increased salience in the 1990s of immigration politics in the European Union has been accompanied by a rise of the scholarly attention for this topic. What most studies leave aside, however, is the question of how European integration impacts on national immigration policies. This paper...