Tutorial 7 - Refugee crisis
History: how the integratin process tstarted, events necessary, treaties, certain important
fgiures the commission (Delore) played a big role
who is behind a theory and what is the key element of the theory
relevance of economcs respect to political decisions, focus on lectures and slides.
Eurocrisis economic and monetary union, the policies, why having a MU what is the
advantage of disadvantage, what are the benefits from it. How it started, how it effected
eurozone MS. Rating angecies and short term but especially long term measures.
Refugee crisis, understanding what it is, how it came to being into the area of ASFJ, what
did the EU to tackle this problem, what was decided to do.
Assignment 1 - Area of Freedom, Security, Justice
1. What dynamics influenced the creation of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) pillar
during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations?
Justice and Home Affairs, third pillar in Maastricht. It was intergovernmental, just as
the second one. The first pillar was community. So this is where we came from. JHA
must have been something high politics, because they didn’t give up sovereignty. It
was in 1992, before there was the fall of the Berlin wall which ended communism.
JHA could probably not tackle the problems that would come up with all these
aspects. Everything is some sort of process, a revolution. Want to achieve, took
some steps, sometimes influence from the outside. Treaty of Amsterdam, they
recognized relevance of JHA. Problem of criminality had to be tackled before
enlargement, because they knew that it came from the enlargement and once they’re
in, then it is a internal euro problem. Amsterdam incorporated the immigration and
asylum policy to the first pillar, so to the community method, the supranational. So
movement towards supranational.Lisbon: three pillar structure was abolished and
they were all introduced into the AFSJ.
2. What are the key institutional reforms to JHA introduced by the 2009 Lisbon Treaty?
Emergency break was introduced. UK and Denmark opt out of the PCHM. Charter of
Human rights became legally binding.
3. What are the key policy activities associated with the Area of Freedom, Security and
Justice (AFSJ)?
Free movement, common immigration and asylum policy was the most important one
how to deall with that. Judical cooperation, fighting terrorism was also important.
4. Schengen area (Ireland and UK, Croatia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania) is an
agreement where internal border controls are abolished, it is easier for refugees to
get to other European countries as there is no controls, once they are in, they can
travel almost anywhere and they can choose to enter the country where the
conditions are the least strict. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein are no EU
members but they are part of Schengen.
5. Dublin convention tried to prevent Asylum shopping by stopping them from making
more than one application at a time to enter Europe. This became necessary