Policy brief (May 2014) by Petra Bendel. In late 2013, the European Union passed the new Common European Asylum System (CEAS). This policy brief assesses the outcomes, achievements, and failures of this policy agreement in light of the EU’s self-proclaimed goals of harmonization, and the rise of protection standards, responsibility sharing, and solidarity among the EU Member States. It then examines potential instruments to be integrated into the Post-Stockholm Program over the next five years. This policy brief also argues that Canada should monitor and evaluate this asylum policy as it unfolds, in order to gain information through lessons learned for Canada’s own policy.