UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Consolidating the CEAS: innovative approaches after the Stockholm Programme? UNHCR’s recommendations to Italy for the EU Presidency July – December 2014

UNCHCR’s recommendations to Italy for the European semester highlight the challenges and difficulties of the CEAS at the end of the 2009-2014 Stockholm Programme, proposing a number of concrete initiatives to overcome them, including the strengthening of the search and rescue, the improvement of reception facilities, the establishment of cooperation mechanisms for the identification of solutions for refugees and the creation of legal alternatives to irregular movements.