Symposium: How to solve Europe’s migration crisis

POLITICO asked thinkers, experts and policymakers for their solution to one of the Continent’s greatest challenges. Contributors included:

+ Jens Spahn is a member of the German parliament and the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
+ Ivan Krastev is chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria
+ Demetrios G. Papadmetriou is president of Migration Policy Institute Europe and president emeritus of the Migration Policy Institute
+ Jeroen Lenaers is EPP shadow rapporteur for the proposal for a permanent redistribution mechanism
+ Syed Kamall is chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament
+ Guy Verhofstadt, European parliamentary group leader for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), was prime minister of Belgium from 1999-2008
+ György Schöpflin is a Hungarian MEP from the Fidesz party
+ Gianni Pittella is chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
+ Alexandra Stiglmayer is a senior analyst and secretary-general of the European Stability Initiative
+ Jimmie Åkesson is the leader of the Sweden Democrats and a member of the Swedish parliament
+ François De Smet, director of Myria, Belgium’s federal center for migration
+ Josef Janning heads the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations

• Primary Source

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

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