Abstract This text discusses the 2015/2016 crisis regarding the mass inflow of refugees into Europe caused by turmoil in Africa and in the Middle East. It suggests that the existing and newly adopted EU migration and asylum measures and policies may not only jeopardise asylum seekers’ rights, but also destabilise the EU regime of fundamental […]
Abstract In the past several years, the EU has been undergoing two major crises: the financial crisis and the migration and asylum crisis. Both crises have in common the need for solidarity among all EU Member States. Within the framework of both crises Member States are expected to help each other by financial and other […]
Article published on ‘Croatia and EU Asylum Law: Playing on the Sidelines or at the Centre of Events?’ by Iris Goldner Lang Abstract This text discusses the most important recent developments in asylum law and practice in Croatia. It concentrates on the major legal and reality challenges in the context of the recent refugee influx […]
“EU External Competences in the Field of Migration: How to Act externally when thinking internally?”, by Paula Garcia Andrade, recently published in the Common Market Law Review. Abstract This article reviews the rules relating to the existence and nature of EU external competences, as deduced from ECJ case law and its Treaty codification, and considers […]
Annual Lecture in Migration Law with Professor Vincent Chetail 22 January 2018 Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm Venue: Room 3.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB Book your ticket Annual Lecture of the LLM in Immigration Law at Queen Mary University of London. The lecture, titled […]
Dr. Daniel Thym and Dr. Lilian Tsourdi, Odysseus Members, have published their article: “Searching for solidarity in the EU asylum and border policies: Constitutional and operational dimensions” in the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. Abstract Solidarity was once at the core of the European integration process. While originally intended to facilitate further integration, solidarity, […]
About Questioning EU Citizenship The question of supranational citizenship is one of the more controversial in EU law. It is politically contested, the object of prominent court rulings and the subject of intense academic debates. This important new collection examines this vexed question, paying particular attention to the Court of Justice. Offering analytical readings of […]