nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/70eb635499d692fc DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240916s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/70eb635499d692fc doi eng 342 23 Mayer, Franz C. Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-8496-578X Flying Blind - Europe in the German Asylum Debate Mayer, Franz C. Verfassungsblog 2024-09-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A quarter of a billion euros. That was the final price tag the last time German politicians and constitutional law professors assured us that a controversial German idea was compatible with EU law. Yet the Autobahn car toll for foreigners only pushed through by the Bavarian regional conservatives (CSU) and passed by the Federal government grand coalition of Conservatives and Social Democrats was – quite predictably from the outset – contrary to European law and cost German taxpayers many millions of euros in contractual penalties following clarification by the ECJ in 2019. The way the current refugee debate in Germany is handled could end up costing Germany, i.e. all of us, much more – not so much in euros, but in trust in the reliability of Germany in general, as an EU Member State, and more generally trust in the reliability of the law. CC BY-SA 4.0 asylum border control Europe European Union law migration law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/europe-in-the-german-asylum-debate/ raw object