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From humanitarian to geopolitical: is the EU ready to change its migration mindset?
09/02/2022 12:46
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Migration and the EU’s capacity to control it is and will remain an existential question for the future of Europe. It will drive the political debate and determine much of the citizen’s support and to this project. The crisis at the Polish and Belarus border is just the latest test case in a long series showing that migration flows is first and foremost a geopolitical matter. Does the EU actually have a thoughtful migration policy? In the light of the recent crisis at the Polish border, how should it review the priorities, from border control to asylum? Should Member states get back some competences already conferred upon the EU? All in all, is the EU’s perception of migration switching to a more geopolitical EU is still seeing the migration from a humanitarian perspective, or it is becoming more and more a geopolitical phenomenon? The speakers of the round-table discussion were Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann (ISSEP - Institute Social Studies Économiques & Politiques), Attila Demkó (Head of the Center for Geopolitics, MCC), Boris Kálnoky (Head of Media School, MCC), and Viktor Marsai (Research Director, Migration Research Institute). The event was moderated by Rodrigo Ballester (Head of the European Center for European Studies, MCC).
MCC Scruton
Tas vezér út 3-7, 1113 Budapest, Hungary
Tas vezér út 3-7, 1113 Budapest, Hungary
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During the discussion, the speakers tried to hightlight that migration should not be a humanitarian but first of all a geopolitical issue. Althought the European Union has not an implicit migration policy and the relevant tools to take back control and make push-backs at the borders. The speakers agreed that migration policy should be in the hands of member states, and the EU has to be more pragmatic on that issue: it must make a clear difference between migration and asylum, and push-backs and refoulements.Related Ideas
Pragmatic laws
Take back control in migration
07
February
16:30 - 17:30
Number of participants
20
Reference: cofe-MEET-2022-02-125732
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