Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure --- "The EU Immigration and Asylum Policy in the Post-Lisbon Institutional Context" [2012] ELECD 529; in Trybus, Martin; Rubini, Luca (eds), "The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of European Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of European Law and Policy

Editor(s): Trybus, Martin; Rubini, Luca

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857932556

Section: Chapter 19

Section Title: The EU Immigration and Asylum Policy in the Post-Lisbon Institutional Context

Author(s): Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure

Number of pages: 24

Extract:

19. The EU immigration and asylum
policy in the post-Lisbon
institutional context
Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche

1. INTRODUCTION

The Council of the European Union (EU) declared, in the Conclusions on
the follow-up of the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum during its
Justice and Home Affairs meeting on 3 June 2010, that the Lisbon Treaty
introduces new provisions on such policy areas that must be `governed by
the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility'.1 Solidarity
and responsibility: here are quite noble values. Still, it would be appropriate
if these were defined along the lines of legal principles and respected by the
normative and operational acts of the EU and its Member States. This is
why these Conclusions deserve further attention.
Indeed, one cannot forget that often `Political language ... is designed to
make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance
of solidity to pure wind' as George Orwell put it.2 And one cannot neglect
the fact that the European agenda is particularly burdened in these fields, as
the Commission is supposed to ensure the implementation of the Stock-
holm Programme adopted by the European Council on 11 December
2009.3 As the April 2010 action plan announced it,4 Cecilia Malmström ­
the Swedish Member of the Commission responsible for Justice and Home


1
Available at: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/10/st10/st10302.en10.
pdf, at p. 2.
2
Orwell, George (1964), Politics and the English Language, London: ...