EIRP Proceedings, Vol 10 (2015)

Abstract

This paper aims at treating from a general point of view the Albanian legislation on asylum, and to see the level of approximation with EU legislation in this field, as the asylum has become a controversial topic because of increasing demands for asylum from citizens of nonmembers states of the European Union. Because of a relatively new law in Albania, discussions on this topic are scarce. The method used for this paper is analyzing the current legal provisions on the issue of asylum in the Republic of Albania, the main regulations of asylum issue in the European Union, in order to see the level of approximation and compliance of legal rules in Albania with international standards on asylum. As a relatively new law, the law on asylum has a partial approximation with EU directives and is in line with the standards enshrined in the Geneva Convention, to which the Republic of Albania has acceded.  Of course, this paper does not treat this issue in an exhaustive way, but provides only a general overview of the level of approximation of Albanian legislation with European Union regulations on asylum.