http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220306-001033-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/temporary-protection-for-ukrainians/ Temporary Protection for Ukrainians - The Unexpected Renaissance of ‘Free Choice’ Thym, Daniel eng 2022-03-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Refugee Protection Russian War against Ukraine Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 One might have expected that the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive would witness a remake of the toxic disputes about ‘burden sharing’ following the mass influx of 2015/16. None of this happened, although the contents of the Implementing Decision is quite different from what many might think intuitively. Inter-state distribution keys or quotas give way to a simple allocation mechanism: ‘free choice’ is the surprise outcome of Thursday’s Council meeting.