The Odysseus Academic Network is happy to celebrate the one year anniversary of our blog EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy which has the mission of providing a critical analysis of recent developments in the immigration and asylum law and policy of the European Union.
We are looking back at a year in which we were able to publish more than 47 blog posts written by over 33 experts from academia and beyond. We published articles on topics as diverse as the EU-Turkey agreement, the Blue Card Scheme and the Dublin Regulation.
To give you an idea we have included three of our most recent articles below: an analysis of the principles of responsibility and solidarity in the Bratislava Declaration on Migration, a piece on the re-establishment of internal border controls, and an investigation into the Hotspot approach in Greece. You can find a more comprehensive list of all published blog articles on our website (http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/list-of-articles/ ).
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The Bratislava Declaration on migration: European irresponsibility instead of solidarity
By Phillippe De Bruycker (ULB/EUI) & Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (EUI)
http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/the-bratislava-declaration-on-migration/
The Bratislava Declaration refers on two occasions to “the principles of responsibility and solidarity”. The basic idea is to “broaden EU consensus” by devising a “long term migration policy” on the basis of the two principles.
At first look, this seems logical and even advisable. Since 2015, the EU has been unable to respond effectively to the ‘refugee crisis'. It is only the fragile ‘deal' with Turkey that brought the illusion of a solution by externalising asylum provision to a third country. The EU remains profoundly divided about possible internal solutions. A European East-West divide has appeared, in addition to the well-known North-South division about the principles evoked in the Bratislava Declaration. Member States in the South have been complaining for years about the lack of solidarity measures, while many Member States in the Northwest have castigated them about their inability to implement their responsibilities. More recently, Member States in the Central/Eastern part of the EU (more precisely the Visegrad group consisting of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland) are refusing, ostensibly in the name of responsibility, to engage in the type of solidarity requested by no longer only the Member States in the South, but also those in the Northwest
Rétablissement des contrôles aux frontières intérieures: Chronique d'une recommandation annoncée ou la flétrissure ?
By Nuno Piçarra, Universidade Nova de Lisboa & European University Institute
http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/retablissement-des-controles-aux-frontieres-interieures/
Le 12 mai 2016, le Conseil a adopté la décision d'exécution 2016/894 « arrêtant une recommandation relative à la réintroduction temporaire du contrôle aux frontières intérieures en cas de circonstances exceptionnelles mettant en péril le fonctionnement global de l'espace Schengen » (ci-après, « décision d'exécution »). Celle-ci se base notamment sur l'article 29 du code frontières Schengen (ci-après, « CFS ») qui prévoit une « procédure spécifique » tendant à la réintroduction d'un tel contrôle. C'est la première fois que cette procédure, ajoutée au CFS par le règlement nº 1051/2013, trouve à s'appliquer
Chaos in Chios: Legal questions regarding the administrative procedure in the Greek Hotspots
By Catharina Ziebritzki, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/chaos-in-chios-legal-questions-regarding-the-administrative-procedure-in-the-greek-hotspots/
Legal uncertainty seems inherent to the Hotspot system and the “absence of legal clarity, worrying”. The EU-Turkey statement which came into effect on 20 March 2016 has caused major changes to the administrative procedure in the Greek Hotspots. (...) This blog contribution aims to give an overview of the current administrative procedure in the Greek Hotspots and to shed light on some procedural questions. Other crucial issues concerning implementation of the EU-Turkey statement and the Hotspot scheme in general – such as reception conditions which are undeserving of this name, systematic detention since 20 March, detention of unaccompanied minors, conditions of detention and restriction of freedom to an island – are beyond the scope of this article. The anything but decent living conditions however greatly increases the need for working procedures and for asylum-seekers to have information about what will happen to them.
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