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EU regional protection programs: enhancing protection in the region or barring access to the EU territory? Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE EUROPEAN UNION REGIONAL REFUGEE INSTRUMENTS TRANSIT RECEIVING COUNTRY PROTECTION HUMAN RIGHTS REFUGEE STATUS DETERMINATION PROCEDURES The European Commission's Communication of 2 September 2005 on regional protection programs defined new tools to enhance the protection capacity of transit and host countries and to improve Europe's contribution to global refugee protection. This new strategic document comes at the very moment when the European Union seems to be going through a "protection crisis". The idea of developing financial, legal and technical assistance to enhance refugee protection in countries hosting the vast majority of the world's refugee population can only be welcomed. However, despite some positive elements in the proposal, the Commission's credibility is open to question when on the one hand, it preaches respect for refugee rights, while on the other hand remains silent over EU Member States' overly restrictive practice that undermine or even breach their international protection obligations. Subheadings include: Sealing EU borders: the human cost of fortress Europe, and Regional protection programs: old solutions in a new bottle? 2026-09-30T11:47:47Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33353733.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/EU_regional_protection_programs_enhancing_protection_in_the_region_or_barring_access_to_the_EU_territory_/33353733 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0