Reform of the Common European Asylum System
A ‘European solution’ has always been the ideal of German immigration policy. Such cooperation is warranted but doing so does not say much about the contours of a common European answer and whether it can realistically be achieved. These questions dominated the hearing in the home affairs committee of the German Bundestag, to which Professor Thym has contributed with written expertise and orally. A recording of the hearing can be found in the parliament’s media centre (in German). Further comments on the Commission proposals can be found in the Open Access Volume ‘Reforming the Common European Asylum System’; a new reference work on ‘European Migration Law’ will be published by Oxford University Press in the coming weeks.