Of course, there are clear rules about how responsibility for refugees is delineated: according to the so-called Dublin Regulation, the first EU member state into which a refugee crosses is responsible for that person’s asylum application. But this is clearly problematic, as it puts the entire burden of refugees on the EU’s frontier countries.
当然，对于如何划分对难民的责任，有明确的规则：根据所谓的都柏林规则（Dublin Regulation），难民所进入的第一个欧盟成员国必须对该难民的避难申请负责。但这显然是有问题的，因为它将所有负担都推给了欧盟边界国家。尽管这一问题在20世纪90年代尚不严重——欧盟国家每年总共只需要接受300,000避难申请——但如今避难申请总数增长了两倍，这一规则已不再合适。