TY - JOUR
T1 - Bottom-up salvation?: from practical cooperation towards joint implementation through the European Asylum Support Office
AU - Tsourdi, Evangelia (Lilian)
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article assesses the role of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in the Euro-pean asylum policy and the shifts that are taking place in the policy’s administration modes. EASO is tasked with coordinating practical cooperation efforts so as to achieve harmonisation “bottom-up”, namely through the harmonisation of practices. Tasked with supporting Member States “subject to particular pressure”, the agency has been called to play a key operational role in the running of the “hotspots”. I focus in particular on the agency’s operational activities, commenting on the agency’s level of interaction with national administrations. I evaluate the extent which the agency’s working unsettles pre-existing assumptions about the balance of powers between the EU institutions and the Member States regarding the implementation of the asylum policy. In light of the Commission proposal on reform of this agency, I comment on initiatives that could be envisaged in the future under the agency’s mandate and what these would mean for the administrative governance of the EU asylum policy
AB - This article assesses the role of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in the Euro-pean asylum policy and the shifts that are taking place in the policy’s administration modes. EASO is tasked with coordinating practical cooperation efforts so as to achieve harmonisation “bottom-up”, namely through the harmonisation of practices. Tasked with supporting Member States “subject to particular pressure”, the agency has been called to play a key operational role in the running of the “hotspots”. I focus in particular on the agency’s operational activities, commenting on the agency’s level of interaction with national administrations. I evaluate the extent which the agency’s working unsettles pre-existing assumptions about the balance of powers between the EU institutions and the Member States regarding the implementation of the asylum policy. In light of the Commission proposal on reform of this agency, I comment on initiatives that could be envisaged in the future under the agency’s mandate and what these would mean for the administrative governance of the EU asylum policy
U2 - 10.15166/2499-8249/115
DO - 10.15166/2499-8249/115
M3 - Article
SN - 2499-8249
VL - 1
JO - European Papers : a journal on law and integration
JF - European Papers : a journal on law and integration
ER -