The EU’s new politics of movement

The EU’s common asylum system is broken; with a fresh refugee crisis brewing in North Africa, it must be replaced with something workable

Foreign Affairs

Guest Writer | 22.02.2011

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EC President José Manuel Durão Barroso knows all too well that despite the theoretical existence of common asylum rules, EU countries apply these more according to their national administrative traditions than the spirit of European law

European governments have tried to build a single border, a compensatory system of cooperation between police, judges and immigration officers and a common refugee policy. But as the Centre for European Reform (CER) senior research fellow Hugo Brady writes, hardening attitudes toward immigration and widening policy disagreements between governments and the EU’s institutions are exposing fault-lines in this structure. And the cracks threaten to widen.

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