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Germans are fleeing Germany: every fifth resident is planning to emigrate
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Italy Falling into a Gap Between Achievements on Paper and What Happens in Reality
Invisible Stability
The European Policy Centre, a Belgian-based non-profit think tank that fosters European integration through analysis and discussions, hosted a series of joint topical discussions with Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations. The debate concentrated on a turning point on EU migration policy: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is due to be fully implemented already in June 2026. How ready is it?
Will the EU Migration Pact Be Ready for Implementation?
Targeted himself by the Israel lobby for antisemitism, Professor John Keane analyses the nature of Zionist revenge.
Zionists, lawfare and the malady called revenge
What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?
Europe Is Not America
The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.
Unsafe ‘Safe Countries’ Is the EU Dumping Its Migration Responsibility on Third Countries Again?
Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector
Migrant Workers and Farming Will They Get a Decent Living and Employment?
To sustain democratic states, we must dismantle the autocracies that persist in our workplaces.
Democratise Firms to Save Democracy and the Planet
Under a European Union grant, Blanca Garcés, senior research fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), has prepared an extensive report about the living and working conditions of agricultural migrant workers in four European countries (Italy, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands) and one African country (Morocco).
Labor of Migrant Workers in Agriculture The Cases of Five Entirely Different Countries
Europe risks losing its long-term influence in the Sahel. That will happen if the Old World countries fail to understand the driving forces of rising anticolonialism and to adapt their approaches in Africa to the new realities.
Europe Risks Losing the Sahel Unless It Comes to Understand It (As Exemplified by Mali)
Several months before the milestone Pact on Migration and Asylum enters into force and lays a basis for a large-scale reform of the bloc’s migration policy, the European Commission published another curious document on the topic. This is the first European asylum and migration management strategy It defines the priorities that will guide the agreement's implementation over the next five years.
Innovation in Migration Management. The EU searches for a new paradigm. Will it Succeed?