nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20231002-012218-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231001s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20231002-012218-0 doi eng 342 23 Bossow, Anja Author aut Europe’s Faustian Bargain Bossow, Anja Verfassungsblog 2023-10-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On Thursday, news broke that the German government had agreed to incorporating the previously rejected Crisis Regulation into the EU’s new asylum and migration pact. The decision was a radical change of course since Germany had previously consistently opposed its inclusion. Framed as allowing for more ‘flexibility’ in case of migratory surges, the Crisis Regulation’s adoption will, in effect, suspend the EU asylum system as we know it for the time being, given that recorded sea arrivals are currently nearing the 2015 levels. A crisis in need of regulation, if you will. In this blogpost, I highlight the dangerous fallacy that underpins our tolerance for the illegality that has come to characterize contemporary border control. In particular, our failure to oppose the constant expansion of the limits of the law that occurs in the name of crisis and political necessity rests on the mistaken assumption that we have nothing to lose in this race to the bottom.  CC BY-SA 4.0 border control European Union Hannah Arendt Human Rights Immigration Right to Asylum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/europes-faustian-bargain/ raw object