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Towards a Harmonised Migration and Asylum Regime in Europe

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Patterns of Migration in Central Europe

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The planned opening of a space for the free circulation of about 500 million citizens of an enlarged Europe has led to a radical change of approach to the migration issues in the European Union. These changes imply that immigration, having been the competence of sovereign States in the past, will become a subject for supra-national consensus-making.

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Nygård, AC., Stacher, I. (2001). Towards a Harmonised Migration and Asylum Regime in Europe. In: Wallace, C., Stola, D. (eds) Patterns of Migration in Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985519_6

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