The EU Refugee Crisis: Dismantling of EU Rules and Values?

The paper discusses the refugee crisis in the European Union by trying to address three questions. First, are the EU institutions and Member States acting in accordance with EU rules in the context of their refugee crisis actions? Second, should the EU migration and asylum rules be amended and, if so, in what way? Finally, what should the European Union do in order to better respond to the current crisis and needs? The answers to the second and third question will lead to the conclusions about the Union’s resilience capacity in the context of the refugee crisis. They will enable the answers to the question whether the refugee crisis can be seen as yet another point in EU history which will enable and force the Union to become stronger and more integrated or whether the refugee crisis marks a point of dismantling of EU rules (like Schengen and Dublin) and, even more importantly, of EU values.