A COVID-19 konzuli igazgatás szervezetrendszerére gyakorolt hatása a repatriálás tanulságai tekintetében
The impact of COVID-19 on the organisation of consular administration in terms of lessons learned from repatriation

Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 has an impact on all aspects of life, sometimes literally paralysing it. This is one of the ways in which governments around the world responded to the outbreak by closing borders in response to the dynamic spread of the infection.On 17 April 2020, 17 Schengen states notified the European Commission of the reintroduction of border controls. The closures were the real test of the EU's consular protection policy, as a large number of EU citizens were stranded in third countries where their return was hampered, if not impossible. The question arises as to how consular protection cooperation under EU rules has fared. This study examines the issue by looking at the lessons learned from the implementation of consular protection measures to assist EU citizens stranded in third countries in their repatriation. It seeks to provide an answer in the light of the statistics available in this respect and the legislation that has been adopted since then, and to make a prognosis: the common consular protection policy is operational from the point of view of repatriation, but its effectiveness needs to be improved, for which the first legislative developments were made in the heat of the moment.

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