CYIL vol. 9 (2018)

VĚRA HONUSKOVÁ CYIL 9 ȍ2018Ȏ relevant. But the same applies to what is now going on with the whole Common European Asylum System as it is a subject to change too. The temporary protection remains to be one of the possible legal responses to situations of a mass influx of people in need. It would allow states to provide necessary help to a large number of people, it might also offer a protection framework to groups of people in need other than refugees or people with reasons for subsidiary protection. The use of different protection frameworks would allow states to structure their responses and to choose proper responses to different situations. The temporary protection would also articulate expectations of states. As we have seen during the last three years, the liberal democracies in Central and Eastern Europe are fragile and easily susceptible to populists in times when the states lack real leaders. The legal rhetoric emphasizing permanency might cause fear in the host society whose members can be afraid of prospective changes in its structure. This happened in the Czech Republic, which seems to deny the reality of existence of migration nowadays.

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