Third, the EU has to at least begin to agree on some form of burden sharing.
This is another aspect within the context of burden sharing worth exploring in future research.
They like the idea of burden sharing.
For years, the question of EU "burden sharing" to deal with the unequal pressures on Spain, Italy and Greece has been miserably set aside on the grounds that "boat" migrants and "land" migrants must be the responsibility of the first "safe" EU country in which they find themselves.
They worry about not only competence, but also the old transatlantic issue of "burden sharing".
The question is about European burden sharing.
This is the political economy of unequal burden sharing.
This is patently unfair, and calls into question where is the necessary burden sharing in the struggle against ISIS, let alone in NATO members' failure to shoulder their fair share of the collective defense budget.
The question then becomes what form the fiscal burden sharing arrangement takes.
This is not burden sharing.
