The ductility of the right to international protection (refugee status and subsidiary protection) facing with the humanitarian crises: a challenge for Europe and the Common European Asylum System

The unsustainable pressure concerning the national asylum systems, especially in Greece and Italy, generated by the severe humanitarian crisis and the tragedy undergone by hundreds of thousands of persons, many of them in clear need for international protection, has not managed to be mitigated throughout the emergency mechanisms taken to address them by the EU. This situation arouses serious flaws in the system of international protection and structural deficiencies in the regulatory package of the current CEAS. New principles have been developed, the need to reform the CEAS forms part and parcel of the current EU agenda. This research approaches not only a detailed analysis regarding to the mechanisms implemented by the EU to cope with the critical situation but also the impact on a future CEAS reform.