The migration challenge [What Think Tanks are thinking]

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Publication Date 22/06/2018
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At the European Council on the 28-29 June 2018, European Union Heads of State or Government were due to discuss the politically charged issue of reforming the EU’s migration and asylum policies. Divisions among EU members over how to handle migrants were exposed again earlier in June 2018 when Italy’s new government tightened its migration policy, while the German ruling coalition faced a potentially destabilising rift over the issue.

The EU's southern borders remained under pressure from irregular migrants escaping poverty and war in the Middle East and Africa. Although the 2016 agreement between the EU and Turkey significantly slowed the influx of migrants into Europe, the problem continued to be used for political gain by nationalist, anti-immigrant and populist movements across the EU.

This note offered links to commentaries and studies on migration by major international think tanks.

Further information

Earlier papers on the same topic can be found in previous editions of 'What Think Tanks are Thinking':

Migration, March 2018
Migration into the EU, June 2017
The EU and migration, February 2017.
The EU and migration, September 2016
The Migration Crisis, May 2016
Europe’s migration crisis, March 2016
The Schengen Area, February 2016
Migration, December 2015
Migration, September 2015
The EU’s Migration Challenge, April 2015

Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2018/623552/EPRS_BRI(2018)623552_EN.pdf
Related Links
The Conversation, 27.06.18: Asylum processing centres in North Africa would merely mask the EU’s migration failings https://theconversation.com/asylum-processing-centres-in-north-africa-would-merely-mask-the-eus-migration-failings-98958
Carnegie Europe: Strategic Europe, 28.06.18: Judy Asks: Can Europe Crack the Immigration Issue? https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/76707
LSE European Institute: EuroppBlog, 16.07.18: Europe should remember its own treatment of refugees while protesting against Donald Trump http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/07/16/europe-should-remember-its-own-treatment-of-refugees-while-protesting-against-donald-trump/
ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/
ECFR: Commentary, 27.06.18: The hazards of haste: EU migration policy under pressure http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_eu_migration_policy_under_pressure

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