Working paper on responsibility sharing

This working paper examines the meaning of solidarity in the context of asylum, usually debated under the term ‘responsibility sharing’. It aims to examine EU Member States’ understanding of solidarity in the context of asylum. In particular, it will investigate the EU’s initial position on solidarity among the Member States of the EU, and whether this approach has shifted over the years and in the course of the last waves of enlargement of the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013.