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This publication contends that the EU is facing a difficult tension between the claim to the universal validity of human rights and compliance with the rule of law on the one hand, and the increasingly powerful domestic demand to limit migration on the other. In light of this, it examines the following questions: Does the current foreign and security policy on migration control contradict the applicable European legal requirements? What role does judicial oversight play in European foreign and security policy? And could the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) possibly limit the executive empowerment of governments and strengthen the EU as a community based on the rule of law?