Judy Asks: Is Europe Turning Its Back on Refugees?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. In this feature the question is: Is Europe Turning Its Back on Refugees?

+ Thanos Dokos - Director general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
+ Patrick Kingsley - Migration correspondent for the Guardian and author of The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
+ Stratos Pourzitakis - PhD candidate at the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, under the scholarship of the EU Academic Program in Hong Kong
+ Jonathan Prentice - Director of the London Office and senior advocacy adviser of International Crisis Group
+ Erika Solomon - Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times
+ Ulrich Speck - Senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy
+ Judith Sutherland - Acting deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch
+ Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı - Director of the Ankara Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Maha Yahya - Acting director of the Carnegie Middle East Center

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: International Summit: Meeting of the EU heads of state or government with Turkey, Brussels, 7 March 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/international-summit-meeting-of-the-eu-heads-of-state-or-government-with-turkey-brussels-7-march-2016/

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

ESO: Background information: Greece begins refugee deportations under EU plan http://www.europeansources.info/record/greece-begins-refugee-deportations-under-eu-plan/

Carnegie Europe: Strategic Europe, 15.04.16: The Refugee Policy the EU Needs Today http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=63340

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