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Why the refugee quota system is unfair on poorer eastern and southern EU states

Bovens, Luc and Bartsch, Anna (2015) Why the refugee quota system is unfair on poorer eastern and southern EU states. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (01 Oct 2015). Website.

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Abstract

EU states agreed on 23 September to implement a refugee quota system which will distribute 120,000 refugees across the EU, despite four member states – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia – voting against the proposal. Luc Bovens and Anna Bartsch write that regardless of the wider debate over whether a quota system is justified or not, it is vital that the ‘distribution key’ determining how many refugees are assigned to each state is fair. They argue that the distribution key proposed by the European Commission is ill-conceived and regressive, and that a fairer system with recalculated quotas may go some way toward convincing the dissenting states to support the system.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s)
Divisions: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects: J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2017 13:42
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 23:58
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70941

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