EU Refugee Qualification Directive: a Brave New World?

摘要

This article aims to map some of the major implications for asylum–related law in Europe of the Refugee Qualification Directive, which twenty-four EU Member States were required to implement by 10 October 2006. It seeks to build on important studies of the Directive completed by, among others, Hemme Battjes, in his book European Asylum Law and International Law, Nijhoff 2006, and Jane McAdam, in her book Complementary Protection in International Refugee Law, OUP 2007, albeit it takes a different view of some key questions.