nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180920-110612-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180916s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180920-110612-0 doi eng 342 23 Costello, Cathryn Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6915-9939 Fixing the Refugee Crisis: Holding the Commission Accountable Costello, Cathryn Verfassungsblog 2018-09-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In that 2015 State of the Union address, Juncker famously asserted that his Commission would be ‘very political’. ‘Political’ in Juncker’s words, meant facing up to challenges, not just ‘business as usual’. Rather, it was ‘time to speak frankly about the issues facing the European Union.’ In spite of this apparent rhetorical and institutional commitment, our central argument is that the Commission’s weakness during the refugee crisis meant it underperformed not only when measured against the aim of being more ‘political’ (in particular if this means correctly identifying and dealing with the sources of real political problems), but even if we envisage for it a more modest technocratic role. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Guild, Elspeth Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1593-9726 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/fixing-the-refugee-crisis-holding-the-commission-accountable/ raw object