Failing forward in EU migration policy? EU integration after the 2015 asylum and migration crisis
本文研究欧盟在庇护和移民领域的合作,认为危机是欧盟一体化循环过程的一部分,而非外部冲击的偶发事件,并指出当前措施未能解决缺乏团结和中央机构的核心问题。
By advancing integration through incomplete agreements, the European Union (EU) has created the very conditions for the emergence of crises, and this has, in turn, spurred on further agreements to deepen integration. Employing this theoretical lens, this article examines EU co-operation in asylum and migration that culminated in 2015 to determine whether crises are, in fact, integral to a cyclical process of EU integration rather than occasional events caused by external shocks. This is done by examining the failures and crises that emerged in migration and asylum policy up to 2015 and the agreements struck at EU level to address them. It is found that despite nominal action to address the weak monitoring mechanisms in use to date and incremental reinforcement of the constellation of institutions operating in this area, no solution has dealt with the critical lack of solidarity and absence of centralized institutions at the root of these issues.