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06 April 2020

How Corona Aggravates the Crises of the European Union and Threatens its Existence

The corona virus is acting as a catalyst for the EU's various crises smouldering and burning for years, intertwining with them. The current corona pandemic is not only endangering people in the EU in life and limb but also the European Union as a supranational community. With unprecedented urgency, it raises the question of its legitimacy, of its raison d'être. We need now an awareness of the political and social dimension of European integration – it must result in solidarity-based action by the EU and the Member States. Continue reading >>
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03 April 2020

Wie Corona die Krisen der Europäischen Union existenzbedrohend verschärft

Das Corona-Virus wirkt schon jetzt drastisch als Katalysator für die seit Jahren schwelenden und brennenden Krisen der EU, weil sie sich mit diesen verschränkt. Die gegenwärtige Corona-Pandemie gefährdet nicht nur die Menschen in der EU an Leib und Leben, sondern die Europäische Union als supranationale Gemeinschaft, weil sie die Frage nach ihrer Legitimation, ihrer Daseinsberechtigung, in ungekannter Dringlichkeit aufwirft. Zentral geht es um ein Bewusstsein für die politische und soziale Dimension des europäischen Integrationsprozesses, das in solidarischem Handeln von EU und Mitgliedstaaten münden muss oder enden wird. Continue reading >>
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26 February 2020

Migration und Demokratie

Migration war in den vergangenen Jahren eines der meistdiskutierten politischen Themen. Auf die Frage, ob Migration eine Herausforderung für die Demokratie darstelle, werden viele mit „ja“ antworten, jedoch mit ganz unterschiedlichen Erwägungen. Es geht mir hier nicht um Fragen der „Integration“, die auf Annahmen darüber beruhen, wer wohin migriert und mit welchem kulturellen Hintergrund. Vielmehr möchte ich die Frage formaler betrachten und mit zwei Aspekten beginnen, unter denen Migration als Herausforderung für die Demokratie erscheint. Der erste Aspekt lässt sich überschreiben mit „Territorium und Gleichheit“, der zweite mit „Entscheidung über Grenzen“. Continue reading >>
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04 February 2020

Contextualising Frontex: A Long-Term Perspective on Database Monitoring of Migrants

This blogpost contextualises Frontex by discussing a pioneer database in Europe, the German Central Foreigner Register that presumably served as a model when establishing the European databases, and by drawing some lessons from the German case for the European context regarding the effectiveness of database surveillance. Continue reading >>
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23 January 2020

Urban Citizenship: A Path to Migrant Inclusion

Earlier commentaries in this online symposium highlighted various aspects of urban citizenship, such as the exclusion of non-urban populations (Lenard) or the conundrum of multilevel frames of legal authority (van Zeben). Harald Bauder suggests that urban citizenship can be an important mechanism to create inclusive communities. Continue reading >>
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20 December 2019

Citizenship by Religion

India is presently witnessing a country-wide mass uprising against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which purposefully aims to grant migrants belonging to six enlisted communities an easy path to Indian citizenship, while denying the same to others – notably Muslims. This Act is unconstitutional as it exploits deliberate omissions on citizenship rules in the constitution while it ignores the constitutional design which is fundamentally based on equality and secularism. Continue reading >>
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12 July 2019

Pre-Modern Understandings of Rule-Making

Since his entering into office a year ago, Italy’s Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini has proved to be the true leader of the governmental coalition between the Five Star Movement and the Lega, run by Salvini himself. His populist approach looks far closer to that of Orbán than to the confused ideology of the Five Star Movement. Contrary to the latter, Salvini always gives the impression of knowing exactly what he wants. Being far more predictable than his allies, he has succeeded both in seizing control of Italy’s political agenda and in gaining a huge electoral consent, not least because he knows how to fuel the popular anxiety. Continue reading >>
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12 March 2019

Children of Men. Comments on the ECtHR’s Judgment in Khan v. France

The Jamil Khan case illustrates the lack of care unaccompanied foreign minors face in France. As the département of Pas-de-Calais did not do everything they could and should have done to comply with their positive care obligation, the judges of the Strasbourg Court concluded unanimously that France had violated Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Continue reading >>
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24 December 2018

Der Schein und das Nichts: der Gesetzes­entwurf für Fach­kräfte­einwanderung

Am 19. Dezember, zum letztmöglichen Zeitpunkt 2018, beschloss das Bundeskabinett nun den Entwurf für ein Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz. Doch was sieht dieser eigentlich vor und wird er tatsächlich den mit dem Namensbestandteil „Einwanderungsgesetz“ verbundenen Assoziationen – Hoffnungen der einen, Befürchtungen der anderen – gerecht? Continue reading >>
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30 November 2018

Will the ECtHR Shake up the European Asylum System?

Are European embassies abroad obliged to issue visa to particularly vulnerable asylum seekers under European human rights? This question is at the core of the case of Nahhas and Hadri v. Belgium currently pending before the Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg Court. Too accustomed have we often become to the limits of state obligations to note how they can make the promise of universal rights fade into hypocrisy. It is crucial that in light of concrete cases the drawing of boundaries is reconsidered – to ask what the law requires, and to render visible the responsibility we have to mitigate shortcomings of the law. Continue reading >>
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