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The adoption of the third generation of EU asylum legislation has been celebrated as a historic breakthrough. Notwithstanding the significance of these measures, developments within Germany and at the European level indicate that further reflection about the way forward is warranted, thus transcending the widespread focus on the path-dependent continuation of complex procedure in individual cases which had been designed by the classic destination countries in Northern Europe and was projected upon supranational legislation later-on. In an ESSAY IN THE FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (‘ZURÜCK ZU DEN URSPRÜNGEN’, in German), Daniel Thym identifies several phases of asylum policy-making and presents a proposal of how the legal and practical limitations of the contemporary legislation can be overcome in a global perspective.