EU migration talks: What EU governments can do to help solve the crisis
Anna Triandafyllidou writes on the key measures that are required to help manage the migration crisis, outlining a four-point plan. She argues that EU governments need to broaden their focus beyond the...
View ArticleWhy the EU should consider decriminalising people smuggling
EU member states agreed on 14 September to strengthen actions against people smugglers in the Mediterranean as part of their response to the ongoing migration crisis. Mollie Gerver writes that instead...
View ArticleEuropeans will be in no mood to show hospitality to refugees until they are...
Can the EU be hospitable to refugees? Jasmine Gani writes that while support for refugees would in principle fall under the EU’s humanitarian remit, many member states have been slow to come forward...
View ArticleWhy the refugee quota system is unfair on poorer eastern and southern EU states
EU states agreed on 23 September to implement a refugee quota system which will distribute 120,000 refugees across the EU, despite four member states – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia...
View ArticleThe interests of refugees should not be forgotten in the attempt to...
EU member states agreed on 23 September to implement a quota system in which 120,000 refugees will be relocated from Greece and Italy to other countries across the EU. Esin Küçük writes that while...
View ArticleFive minutes with James Ker-Lindsay: “I have never seen the EU so utterly...
How has the refugee crisis affected countries in South Eastern Europe? In a discussion on the situation in Serbia, Croatia and Hungary, James Ker-Lindsay argues that with no country – Germany included...
View ArticleWhy Slovakia has become the focal point for opposition against EU refugee quotas
Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico, defended his opposition to refugee quotas in a statement delivered to the European Parliament on 5 October. Katarina Lezova writes on the domestic debate over...
View ArticleThe EU’s dirty deal with Turkey: why the refugee agreement could have...
EU leaders have proposed a deal with Turkey under which the country would receive financial assistance and other concessions in exchange for limiting the flow of refugees across Turkey’s borders into...
View ArticleFive minutes with Javier Solana: ‘Europe must respond to the refugee crisis...
How should the EU respond to the multiple challenges it presently faces, from economic malaise to the refugee crisis and the conflict in Ukraine? In an interview with EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown,...
View ArticleThe UK’s plans to prevent migration from Libya show a dangerous unwillingness...
Although much of the attention concerning the migration crisis has recently focused on Greece and Turkey, dangerous boat crossings from Libya continue to present a significant problem. Simon McMahon...
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