From Internal to External Borders: Recommendations for Developing a Common EU Asylum and Migration Policy by 2009

In this follow-up letter to its advisory letter on the Dutch EU Presidency in 2004, the AIV looks at how the development of this area of policy should be taken forward in the second phase and examines the extent to which Community legislation is necessary or desirable, in view of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. Although the AIV is aware of the resistance to more extensive European cooperation that exists in some quarters, it nevertheless recommends an ambitious approach.