Controversy between the European Commission and the governments of the Member States of the European Union on the draft regulation on migration and asylum management in the years 2020-2023

Abstract

The author of this article has set himself two research objectives. The first objective is to reconstruct the dynamics of the dispute between the European Commission and the governments of the Member States over the establishment of a permanent relocation programme for migrants in the European Union. The dispute on this issue began back in 2015, but ended in 2019 with the failure of the European Commission to withdraw the draft regulation establishing a crisis relocation mechanism and amending the Dublin III Regulation in June of the same year [COM(2015) 450]. The reason for this was the opposition of the Visegrad countries, who did not like the idea of Germany, France, Italy and Greece imposing a permanent relocation mechanism on the EU. Therefore, on 23 September 2020, the Commission presented a new legislative proposal, namely the draft regulation on migration and asylum management, the political and legal analysis of which is the second objective of this article.