Refugees in the European Union: from emergency alarmism to common management

The refugee’s flows have alighted the European political debate boosting nationalistic forces in almost all countries. aim of this paper is to show that actual number asylum seekers does not really allow to talk about a “refugee crises”. It argues, however, current Union institutions and procedures are highly insufficient manage successfully inflows and requests. A European foreign policy could helped prevent refugees’ from war-thorn areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya Syria. Once problem there, procedures centred on Dublin Convention inadequate provides few radical suggestions made for an EU- centred refugees management policy.