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This chapter addresses a rationalist ‘puzzle’, namely the question why the Justice and Home Affairs Council reached political agreement on the socalled Dublin II Regulation (Council 2003a) in spite of the Regulation’s likely redistributive effects on the number of asylum applications processed by individual member states. Given the expected consequences of this legislative act, intergovernmental negotiations conducted on the basis of calculated national interests alone would have ended in political deadlock.
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Aus, J.P. (2008). The Mechanisms of Consensus: Coming to Agreement on Community Asylum Policy. In: Naurin, D., Wallace, H. (eds) Unveiling the Council of the European Union. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583788_6
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