Europe Facing Migration. National Strategies versus Common European Policies
Europe Facing Migration. National Strategies versus Common European Policies

Summary/Abstract: The European Union presents itself, nowadays, as a unique space of freedom, allowing its citizens liberties and granting them rights never met in any other international organization. Moving on from the usual debate on the relationship between national sovereignty and common European approaches on matters regarding state security, the aim of this paper is to analyze the ways in which the member states regard and rule the issues related to international migration, and the ways in which European legislation influences the response to these issues. The European Agenda on Migration issued in May 2015 by the European Commission states, among others, the need for enforcing tools meant to ensure protection to displaced persons that are in need of it, in order to formulate a proper response to the ongoing migration crisis. Therefore, the question this paper aims to answer is to what extent are the institutions of the European Union, and the common policies they formulate, enabled to offer viable solutions in this matter, and what is the position of the national institutions and policies of the member states in this international framework? By creating a comparative analysis of the two levels of legislation, this paper scrutinizes the European Union’s current multilevel governance system applied to the particular matter of migration, and the shifts it took from Hooghe and Marks’s approach back in the 1990s.

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