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This chapter summarises the main findings of this study and provides an outlook on the 2015/2016 “refugee crisis,” demonstrating how the key argument advanced here helps to understand today’s crisis dynamics. The first section discusses the study’s main empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions. In the second section, I will carefully generalise my findings to the second phase of the CEAS, the “refugee crisis” and other policy areas. In this vein, the third section applies my core argument about the power of strong regulating states to the “refugee crisis.” The current high inflow of refugees has brought to light the diversity of national approaches towards asylum and the lack of working co-operation in the CEAS. These facts are not novel. They have, actually, challenged European asylum policy for more than two decades.
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Eichener (1997) mentions the detailed-mindedness of the North and the harmonious approach of the South.
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Of course, the EP by definition is an elected body and hence a majoritarian institution. Yet, the fact that voter turnout is comparatively low in European elections as compared to national elections, suggests that politics in the EP are less salient than in domestic parliaments. The bond between the voters and the parliamentarians is much weaker in the EU context than at the national level.
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In future research, it would be interesting to compare the first and the second phase of the CEAS to understand why the Commission has become more progressive, and why the EP became more restrictive.
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Zaun, N. (2017). Conclusion and Outlook: The Power of Strong Regulating States. In: EU Asylum Policies. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39829-7_7
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