Tag: non-harmonized statuses

The HHC ensures access to effective, free-of-charge legal counselling and representation at all places (reception centres, community shelters, alien policing jails) where persons in need of international protection are accommodated or detained in Hungary.

The approximation of asylum policies is considered a key field of harmonisation within the European Union. As one of the EU’s most ambitious aims in this regard, member states have adopted in recent years a harmonised interpretation of refugee status and subsidiary protection.