Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/310934 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] EconPol Forum [ISSN:] 2752-1184 [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 22-25
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
Refugee protection in Europe is characterized by free-riding and a highly inequitable distribution of responsibilities across EU member states. Refugee protection as a public good suffers from collective action challenges that have contributed to the under-provision of refugee protection willingness. Protection inequities have persisted over the past 30 years and across the three largest refugee crises despite EU solidarity initiatives. The effectiveness of such initiatives has remained limited as the EU has struggled to develop policies that go beyond voluntary (and often symbolic) responsibility sharing initiatives. To become more effective in addressing refugee disparities, the EU should seek to develop more substantive (market-based and mandatory) solidarity initiatives than it does in its recently adopted European Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Document Type: 
Article

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