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The European Union started to coordinate and harmonise the asylum policies of ~their Member States in 1999 within a common ‘area of freedom, security and ~justice’, as stipulated by the Treaty of Amsterdam. However, the communitarisation ~of asylum policies by the EU has not met its main targets, despite the installation ~of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and several attempts ~to implement and improve these regulations and directives by means of legislative ~reforms, political programmes and administrative initiatives. Today, we are ~still far from a European-wide asylum regime that implements harmonised procedures, ~and grants equivalent protection titles across all Member States (Council ~of the European Union, 2016a). National asylum systems and recognition rates ~continue to differ widely within the EU (AIDA, 2017; EASO, 2017a).