Cathryn Costello and Grażyna Baranowska discuss in the WeiterGedacht podcast the challenges Europe is facing at the moment, the rights refugees should have in the EU and the lessons learned from 2015-2016 European refugee crisis.
More than three Million people have fled the Ukraine and seeking refuge in Germany, Poland and many other European countries due to the Russian invasion of their country, which led to a large refugee movement in Europe.
In this podcast, Cathryn Costello, Professor of Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, Dr. Grażyna Baranowska MSC Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and Anne Kjaer Bathel, CEO and co-founder of ReDI School of Digital Integration discuss with host Ursula Weidenfeld the challenges Europe is facing at the moment, the rights refugees should have in the EU and the lessons Europe has learned from the dispute over the reception, distribution and accommodation of refugees in 2015 and 2016.
Further readings:
Costello C, “Overcoming Refugee Containment and Crisis” (2020) 21 German Law Journal 17
Tsourdi, E., and Cathryn Costello, ‘The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum’ in Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (eds), The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Also available on Spotify here.