Dublin after Schengen: Allocating Responsibility for Examining Asylum Applications in Practice

The objective of this article is to outline the main aims and features of the Dublin Convention and to briefly compare them with the Schengen provisions on asylum. Secondly, it will report on the experiences of the Convention’s first year of implementation: the problems and limitations of the Convention as well as relevant lessons drawn from the practical application of Schengen. Thirdly, it will confront the aims with the results so far and it will comment on necessary future developments