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The ‘euro toolkit’: How to save Schengen in four key steps

The European Commission presented proposals on 15 December 2015 related to the Schengen area and the Frontex border agency, with the European Council due to meet on 17-18 December 2015 to discuss the proposals and how to resolve the ongoing refugee crisis. In light of the proposed reforms, Valentin Kreilinger writes that Europe’s handling of the …

Cooperation instead of coercion on the refugee quota

This blog post is the short version of my proposal to use “enhanced cooperation” in the refugee crisis instead of a qualified majority vote and shows how a rarely used treaty provision could be applied in the current refugee crisis. A longer blog post was published by the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin on 21 …