With far-right eurosceptic parties building their influence on anti-immigrant rhetoric, it is imperative to honour the monumental efforts made to ensure peace in Europe by creating, together, a more compelling story about migration, writes Fatameh Jailani.
Europe takes pride in the export of rule of law and democracy, but has done quite the opposite by supporting corrupt regimes with woeful human rights records, turning a blind eye to their misdeeds when it suits, argues Joël Ruet.
Distrustful of the freshly passed asylum and migration pact, EU countries and the European Commission have turned to third-country deals to curb irregular migration, thus finally aligning with Hungary, until recently criticised as a migration hardliner.
The proposed reform of the Schengen Borders Code will legalise and expand targeted checks on racialized communities, giving carte blanche to member states to potentially use violence when larger groups of people try crossing their borders, writes Michele LeVoy.
The new Pact on Migration and Asylum will not only violate human rights, but will also prove to be ineffective for the goals it has been conceived for, writes Gaia Romeo.
This week, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee, LIBE, will vote on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Hope Barker and Sonja Grabowsky explain what is at stake.
Few policy topics are as charged and important to politicians and public opinion as migration.
Finland has identified a surge in asylum-seekers from Russia and has taken measures to curb it by closing four of the nine border crossing points along its 1,340 km-long frontier with its big eastern neighbour.
Last week’s agreement between the UK and Austria to work together on ‘third country’ asylum schemes is the latest confirmation that the EU’s southern borders extend well beyond the Mediterranean Sea.
To call a spade a spade, the ongoing exclusion of Bulgaria and Romania from the Schengen passport-free area only helps to feed anti-EU propaganda and undermines the EU's influence and values abroad, writes Ilhan Kyuchyuk.
So far this year, over 2,000 people died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Most politicians in the EU say the situation is unacceptable, but Europe is facing a deadlock in which both possible ways out of the crisis are blocked by the other side.
The phrase ‘Team Europe’ started cropping up in Commission press releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, it seemed like nothing more sinister than the latest addition to the lexicon of euro-jargon, a clunky but harmless phrase designed to describe cases where the EU and national governments were working together.
On 16 April 1912, the New York American ran with the headline “J.J. Astor lost on Titanic, 1,500 to 1,800 dead”. John Jacob Astor IV was one of the richest men on earth when the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April. One hundred eleven years later, the media stereotype hasn’t changed: First-class passengers have priority.
Last Sunday’s EU leaders' visit to Tunisia paved the way for an agreement on the model of the EU-Turkey deal of 2016. But just like Turkey, Tunisia is not a safe country, and sending back there the asylum seekers who …
Thursday night's migration deal struck by EU home affairs ministers in Luxembourg is not ambitious. However, it was never going to be.
The EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum fails to consider the long-term consequences of migration processes on the well-being of migrants, and of their second and third-generation descendants, writes Kathrin Pabstis.
The EU must change direction to achieve its migration objectives in the Mediterranean, write James Dennison and Andrew Geddes.
International law is sacred unless it applies to migration. That appears to be the message from Europe's political leaders. Following Thursday’s EU immigration ministers meeting, the bloc’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson opined that the UK's new 'small boats' legislation, which …
We cannot risk another summer of infighting over Europe's borders. That is why we need, first and foremost, European solutions to tackle the evident migration and asylum challenges faced by Europe, and not 'Trumpist' strategies, writes Stéphane Séjourné.
Migration will feature high on the agenda of the Special European Council on Thursday and Friday (9-10 February), where EU leaders will also discuss Ukraine and the economy.
Invisible from the public eye, refugees face more human rights violations than ever in Greece, writes Begüm Başdaş.
The European Parliament has issued a stark warning to the EU’s border agency Frontex this week over its "misconduct" related to handling migrants at EU borders, in a move considered by many as a victory for human rights.
Europe and Africa must invest in their human capital to ensure that migration can be beneficial for both continents, write Paul Kagame and Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The Conference on the future of Europe is faltering, but EU institutions and member states can still save it. And they should, as it could be a key tool to re-engage the citizens, writes Nicoletta Pirozzi.
