The European Union in view of the 2015-Refugee-Crisis
by Martha Lucía Quiroga Riviere
pp. 220-246 Issue 17 (9,1) – January-June 2022 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2022.9.1.11
Abstract
With the arrival of one million refugees in 2015, the European Union enters a deep crisis that is manifesting itself to this day. The article first presents the development of the EU asylum policy before 2015 and exposes the unprecedented nature of the refugee figures. Then it develops the Agenda that the Union designed to face the humanitarian problem, showing the crisis of its asylum policy and the fracture that it caused within it and examines the points of its policy to reveal how the values of the EU were in the background when it contemplated to refugees as a continental threat which was expressed in securitization, border outsourcing, and burden shifting. This pragmatic policy that characterized his response leads one to wonder if in the face of difficult and unstable international geopolitics, it will not become the rule for the European Union.