If Europe’s democratic architecture is cracking, it is because its foundations are weakening. Solidarity is one of them. ‘Western democracy is in crisis.’ Many pundits and scholars rehearse this narrative, in which the rise of populism and illiberalism are presented as challenging national democracies and the European Union. To address this challenge, it is […]
The Nansen Passport – A Solution To The Legal Statuses Of Refugees
More than 1.2 million migrants have come to Europe in the past year – most of them from Syria. One year after the ‘long summer of migration‘ in 2015, Europe is still facing two severe problems: first, the lists of safe countries of origin differ in many states of the EU and secondly, further large-scale […]