The ‘New Europe' and the ‘European Refugee': The Subversion of the European Union’s Refugee Law by its Migration Policy 1

What choice do we have? National or European – formulated this way we are presented with the tyranny of two choices. The third, that we need be neither but can aspire to a genuine internationalism that knows neither ‘state’ or ‘continental limits’, stands marginalized, ridiculed as pathetically utopian, the idea of the dreamer. Be a realist, accept the terms you are offered and if you are on the outside of ‘Europe’ looking in, then show why we should accept you rather than them. ³