Strategic Asylum Law Making in Europe: Institutional Locus

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German Working Papers in Law and Economics

AUTHOR:
Jenny Monheim

TITLE:
Strategic Asylum Law Making in Europe: Institutional Locus

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Jenny Monheim (2007) "Strategic Asylum Law Making in Europe: Institutional Locus", German Working Papers in Law and Economics: Vol. 2007: Article 19.
http://www.bepress.com/gwp/default/vol2007/iss2/art19

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ABSTRACT:
Given the background of changing institutional competencies in the European Union, we analyze the choice of asylum law standards of national and European parliaments, the Council of the European Union and codecision between the Council and the European Parliament. In a two country model we find that the European arrangements maximize neither the welfare of the Member Countries nor the welfare of refugees. For the latter, there has been an improvement in the institutional location of asylum law making with the introduction of codecision. The current development towards a Common European Asylum System is in the interest of neither party.