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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170213-145504 https://verfassungsblog.de/fluechtlingspolitik-in-der-eu-heiliger-sankt-florian-verschon-mein-haus-zuend-andre-an/ Asylum Policy in the EU: Holy Saint Florian, Spare this Cottage, Burn the Other One! Markard, Nora ger 2015-04-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 In the past days, an estimated 1,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean, when two boats sank in quick succession. The urgent call for a search and rescue system adequate to the situation is completely justified. Assistance in distress at sea is an age-old international obligation, which was laid down in several international treaties, and to denounce it as support for smugglers is as cynical as it is misleading. If smugglers aren’t to profit from these needs, legal access to asylum must be opened—showing the very solidarity to overstrained countries in the region that the Refugee Convention demands in its preamble. This requires a radically different approach; the measures envisaged by the EU are but a meager beginning.