The trees in the famous Billie Holiday song Strange Fruit stood out from others by the bodies hanging from them. Like those trees, the spotlight has been turned on the European Union’s asylum policy by little Aylan, a Syrian child found drowned on a Mediterranean beach. His death has given a face to the macabre thousands of deaths that came before his. His impact marks a shift in the existential crisis of the EU’s common asylum policy, at long last dragged to the only ground worthy of standing on—the European Union’s values.