scholarly journals International Solidarity and the Global Compact on Refugees: What Role for the African Union and the European Union?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Salvatore F Nicolosi ◽  
Solomon Momoh
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
International Solidarity

Abstract On the 70th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention, this article examines the concept of solidarity and explains its relevance today, through the lens of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). While stressing the potential as well as the challenges for thorough implementation of the solidarity mechanisms established by the GCR, the article argues that regional organizations may contribute to meeting the GCR objectives. This is particularly urgent for regions that are most affected by migratory flows. In proposing new ways of approaching the concept of solidarity, the article suggests that the African Union strengthen mechanisms other than the physical sharing of refugees, including pooling resources to support states experiencing large influxes of refugees. In addition to a system of financial support for refugee protection, the article also recommends that the European Union ensures safe channels for arrivals and a more robust resettlement programme, to help realize the GCR objectives.

The EU’s engagement with non-European regional organisations on human rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Salmon ◽  
Magnus Killander
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
American States ◽  
Regional Organisations ◽  
European Regional ◽  
Positive Results

The chapter introduces the human rights work of the regional inter-governmental organisations highlighted in the European Union (EU) Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracy and discusses the EU’s mandate to engage with these organisations and how this engagement takes place in practice, with a focus on the EU’s engagement with the two regional organisations with the most developed human rights systems outside Europe, the African Union (AU), and the Organization of American States (OAS). The chapter finds that although EU human rights cooperation with regional organisations yields essentially positive results, several challenges remain in relation to the conceptualisation of human rights and democracy, the ownership of the human rights agenda, the coherence in the areas of cooperation, the consistency of the financial aid, and the lack of transparency regarding the results of the financial support.

scholarly journals The Fragmented Inclusion of Gender Equality in AU-EU Relations in Times of Crises

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-459
Author(s):  
Anna van der Vleuten ◽  
Anouka van Eerdewijk
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Market Making ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Interregional Cooperation

Facing internal and external crises, the European Union and the African Union have revitalized their interregional cooperation. This article theorizes interregional norm dynamics and explores how, in times of crises, gender equality norms are shaped in interregional relations between the African Union and the European Union. The question is all the more relevant because gender equality is shaped very differently in the European Union and the African Union policies. The African Union has adopted a rather holistic understanding of gender equality, while the European Union approach is constrained by a market-making logic. Also, since the 2008 economic crisis, gender equality policies within the European Union seem to stagnate while they seem to expand in the African Union. Our analysis of core texts shows that at interregional level attention to gender equality is fragmented. Even though in some respects the African Union gender equality norms are more encompassing, and gendered effects of crises in the European Union would merit renewed attention to gender equality, the European Union norms and interests dominate the agenda. Showing how power asymmetries between and disjointed logics of regional organizations impact interregional gender equality norms, the article contributes to the scarce literature on interregional norm dynamics.

scholarly journals What asylum and refugee policies do Europeans want? Evidence from a cross-national conjoint experiment

2021 ◽  
pp. 146511652110068
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Jeannet ◽  
Tobias Heidland ◽  
Martin Ruhs
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Conjoint Experiment ◽  
Refugee Policies ◽  
European Union Member States ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
Cross National

The protection of asylum seekers and refugees has become one of the most politically divisive issues in the European Union, yet there has been a lack of research on public preferences for asylum and refugee policies. This article analyzes which policies Europeans prefer and why. We advance a theoretical framework that explains how asylum and refugee policies that use limits and conditions enable individuals to resolve conflicting humanitarian and perceived national interest logics. Using an original conjoint experiment in eight countries, we demonstrate that Europeans prefer policies that provide refugee protection but also impose control through limits or conditions. In contrast to the divisive political debates between European Union member states, we find consistent public preferences across European countries.

scholarly journals The evolution of the international peace architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Oliver P. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
International Legal System

Abstract The theories and doctrines related to peacekeeping, mediation, peacebuilding, and statebuilding, as well as other tools used to end war and conflict, raise a range of long-standing questions about the evolution and integrity of what might be called an international peace architecture. A narrow version of this term has begun to appear in the context of peacebuilding through the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, other regional actors, the international legal system, and the International Financial Institutions. This article proposes a much broader, historical version, with six main theoretical stages, which have, from a critical perspective, produced a substantial, though fragile, international architecture.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT (NOT TAX) OF THE ECONOMY IN THE EU COUNTRIES DUE TO THE PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 251-257
Author(s):  
Anzhelika L. Gendon ◽  
◽  
Galina F. Golubeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Euro Pean ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Positive Factor ◽  
The Eu

The article examines the financial support (not tax) of the economy in the EU countries due to the pandemic. A comprehensive vision of the situation and strategic planning are the foundation of the Euro-pean Union's economic policy. These qualities help to develop comprehensive measures to stabilize the labor market and entrepreneurship in the countries of the European Union in the context of a global emergency. A positive factor is also the fact that in an epidemic situation, political decisions of various states are aimed at introducing socially oriented measures that support their citizens.

scholarly journals Global and regional aspects for development of Serbia and the Balkans: The events from the past as a message for future

2010 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-177
Author(s):  
Dejan Sabic ◽  
Mila Pavlovic ◽  
Snezana Vujadinovic ◽  
Miroljub Milincic
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
International War ◽  
Further Development

In 2010 Serbia faced with many social, economical and political issues such as the economic crisis, unemployment, uncertain candidate for membership in the European Union, cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and others. Recurrences of the past are still being felt in the political than some of the European Union with Serbia. Serbia has a long way toward permanent membership, and to intensify regional cooperation in Southeast Europe (SEE) through active membership in regional organizations and initiatives. Although this region for many years been burdened with the past and lack of understanding among nations, the steppes of integration is still achieved and is still stricken by stereotyped comparisons with a barrel keg, and so damn yard. The aim of this paper is to point out some directions for further development of the region and review of the circumstances that have contributed to this state, to show the events of the past who may be a message for the future. .

Innovation-Led Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 467-491
Author(s):  
Ivana Domljan ◽  
Vjekoslav Domljan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
African Union ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Production ◽  
Policy Measures

An effective innovation system provides rules and procedures that nurture ideas, research, and increase in knowledge, resulting in new goods/services, new production or organisational processes, or new marketing techniques, and hence is a major source of technological progress does not exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order for Bosnia and Herzegovina to increase and strengthen the commercialization of research and innovativeness of companies, it is necessary to (1) increase investments in R&D at least to the norm of the African Union (1% of GDP), as the European Union norm (3% of GDP) is too high, and (2) design and implement policy measures aimed at stimulating the research and development capacities of the business sector (through tax incentives for staff and capital engagement) to strengthen the activities of commercialization of research and development and links between universities and business companies (e.g., to establish a program for the establishment of technology and innovation centres [one per region]).

Part IV Access to Protection and International Responsibility-Sharing, Ch.28 The Evolution of Safe Third Country Law and Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freier Luisa Feline ◽  
Karageorgiou Eleni ◽  
Ogg Kate
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

This chapter details how States and regions use safe third country (STC) practices to deny protection to asylum seekers and refugees on the grounds that they have, or may have, protection in another country. The STC notion originated in Switzerland in 1979, spread throughout Europe in the 1980s, and was adopted by the European Union and countries such as Australia and Canada in the 1990s. Since then, developments in STC law and practice globally include new bilateral agreements, reforms to STC provisions in domestic and supranational legislation, and landmark decisions of superior courts. The chapter studies these changes in Europe, Australia, and North and South America, focusing in particular on the period from 2010 to 2020. It argues that there has been a dilution of STC protection standards in these four regions. The thresholds for effective protection have diminished and are lower than the minimum laid down in international treaties. Moreover, in the introduction and evolution of these STC practices, lawmakers and judges have disregarded the legal principle of international solidarity. While STC practices have long been critiqued as burden-shifting rather than -sharing, new STC law and jurisprudence exacerbates inequities between States with respect to responsibility for hosting refugees.

Part VI Actors, Ch.37 Regional Organizations the European Union

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maljean-Dubois Sandrine
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
General Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Environmental Negotiations ◽  
The Eu

This chapter addresses the European Union (EU) as a preeminent example of a regional organization and its role in international environmental law. It first examines the progressive affirmation of EU competence in the environmental field and its development of a distinctive environmental policy. The chapter then turns to the external dimension of EU environmental competence, discussing the EU's participation in and enforcement of international environmental law, as well as the general question of whether the EU can be said to have an external environmental policy. The EU internal environmental policy expands on the international stage. Even if it lacks the internal structures and resources fully and effectively to assume a role as a global environmental leader, the EU participates in environmental negotiations, concludes and implements international treaties, and exercises its ‘soft power’ to promote the development and implementation of international environmental law. The chapter concludes with some brief reflections on other regional organizations and their distinctions from the largely sui generis EU example.

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