The surge of asylum-seekers to the EU has increased steadily, and reached record highs in recent years and months. Asylum-seekers risk their lives on dangerous journeys to Europe, which often do not stop at the EU’s external border but continue within the EU. The overload on some countries’ asylum systems has led both to poor conditions for asylum-seekers and to lower rates of asylum being granted. Asylum-seekers who therefore chose to move to other Member States offering better reception conditions will be transferred back to the state they first entered, unless the asylum system in that country features systemic deficiencies.
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