ASYLUM PROCEDURE IN LATVIA - A PART OF COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM
Last modified: 03.08.2018
Abstract
Common European asylum system conditions apply to Latvia. Developement of Common European asylum system impacts Latvian legislation and has effect on work of judicial institutions. Any European Union scale change affects Latvia. Common European asylum system conditions in Latvia are being met by direct impementation of EU instructions. Well-considered position and evaluation of CEAS conditions according to Latvian interests is necessary.
Goal of this article is to review demands of Common European asylum system towards memder states as well as concordance of Latvian asylum procedure with conditions of Common European asylum system. Objectives of this research is to examine developement of legislation in EU and Latvia, to analyse and compare current legislation of asylum procedure in EU member states as well as to analyse impact of CEAS towards asylum procedure in Latvia.
In order to achieve objectives, following research methods were used: monographic research of theoretical and empirical sources in order to anayse and evaluate various asylum domain information, analytical method in order to acquire legislative content and verities, comperative method in order to discover differences in legislation of asylum procedure in EU countries, sytemic method in order to disclose interconnections in legislation, descriptive statistics method and corelation analysis in order to anayse process of asylum procedure and determine interconnections in asylum procedure time frme between legislation and pratical instances in EU countries.
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