http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230625-231111-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/human-rights-violations-to-deflect-refugees/ Human Rights Violations to Deflect Refugees - The EU Council Agreement on Asylum Reform as an Intensification of Policies Tried and Failed Mouzourakis, Minos Costello, Cathryn eng 2023-06-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CEAS European Council Non Refoulement pushbacks Refugee Protection Right to Asylum Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Council of the European Union (EU) recently reached a negotiating position (‘mandate’) on two significant elements of the ‘reform’ of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). The vision hailed as a ‘historic’ agreement by national governments is a direct threat to the right to asylum. The Council not only maintains all structural flaws of the CEAS intact but proposes a quagmire of asylum procedures marred by unworkable, unnecessarily complex rules, that are in clear violation of key human rights standards.