nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/60583942c238aa88 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240610s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/60583942c238aa88 doi eng 342 23 Zirulia, Stefano Author aut Waiting for Kinsa - The Criminalisation of Facilitating Irregular Immigration before the CJEU Zirulia, Stefano Verfassungsblog 2024-06-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 18 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union will sit as a Grand Chamber in a hearing addressing the compatibility of the so-called Facilitators Package with the principle of proportionality set out in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR). The Kinsa case (previously named Kinshasa) provides an opportunity for the CJEU to counteract the trend towards overcriminalisation of humanitarian action that has taken hold across the EU. This blog highlights the ways in which the Facilitator Package fails to take account of important fundamental rights and why the criminalization of solidarity that it has facilitated is not an inevitability but a political choice. CC BY-SA 4.0 CJEU Charta der Grundrechte | Europäische Union European Charter of Fundamental Rights Kinshasa Kinshasa Case (DE-588)4619834-9 gnd Charta der Grundrechte | Europäische Union (DE-588)4030682-3 gnd Kinshasa Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/waiting-for-kinsa/ raw object