“It is now time to take up the challenge of jointly managing migration, with the right balance between solidarity and responsibility”. It is also time to restore “trust among Member States”. It was with these words that the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday 23 September, tabled a series of long-awaited proposals on asylum and migration.
The objective is to end the impasse in the European asylum reform launched in 2016, an impasse crystallised...