PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW ON THE STATUS OF REFUGEES
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW ON THE STATUS OF REFUGEES

Summary/Abstract: What we are witnessing today in Europe and especially within the European Union, is a general confusion generated by waves of migrants and possible risks to the security of the EU and its Member States. The confusion is alsocaused by the lack of adequate policies and strategies and a major absence ofpredictability, but also by incorrect approaches of situations caused by thehuge number of people emigrating to Europe, especially to Western Europe,willing to settle here in a veritable exodus. Nevertheless, the genuine refugeesare only a small part of these people. Public international law brings underregulation the protection of refugees by establishing a legal status for them inthe Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted by the UNO in 1951.Unfortunately, international law has few provisions related to the protection ofmigrant persons, other than refugees. We believe that a fair approach to thestatus of refugees, as it is established by international treaties, is necessary inorder to properly distinguish genuine refugees from other categories ofmigrants and thus to determine the obligations of European states (not only)concerning the refugees and what can the states do in order to protect thevictims of certain special situations, such as armed conflicts, difficult economiclife, natural disasters etc.

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