Originally Posted by
Vortex Hoop
The fact we left it matters not one jot.
It still applies in France, and means that any claim for asylum should have been made in the first safe country they arrived in.
The Dublin regulation provided a system for deciding how applications for asylum should be processed
within the EU. If an asylum seeker chooses to leave the EU (which they are perfectly entitled to do), then they are
de-facto no longer applying for asylum in the EU and the regulation does not apply. From the UKs point of view, the Dublin regulation gave us a legal route that we could use to return some asylum seekers to other EU states. The fact that we left, removes this possibility which is why it is relevant now. If I recall correctly, one of the leave campaign's reasons for leaving the EU was that it would give us back control over our borders. Given that, it seems odd that the same politicians are now whinging about France not doing enough; isn't this what they asked for?