Migration evidence shows how badly the EU needs to rethink its strategy
Mar 07, 2016 22:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
European leaders continue to be stumped by the so-called migration crisis. Fences are going up in the east and warnings are being issued that there is no more room. But people keep coming. Europes agenda on migration is...
Briferendum series: France issues migrant threat upon Brexit
Mar 03, 2016 11:46 am UTC| Commentary
Fear show is not just over. France has issued fresh threats that Britain would face if voters choose to leave in June 23rd referendum. It has shown two fear card at the moment - migrants and red carpet. If Brexit is...
How Macedonia found itself at the centre of Europe's refugee crisis
Mar 01, 2016 18:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Distressing scenes have been unfolding on Macedonias border with Greece, where police have been using tear gas on refugees attempting to break through a razor wire fence designed to keep them out. Given the recent tone...
Migrant crisis: Schengen under threat
Feb 29, 2016 08:46 am UTC| Commentary
Europes prized Schengen area, which is a passport free travel zone, highly critical to European integration is clearly under threat as Austria and other nine Balkan states too unilateral decision to choke migrant flows by...
Migrant crisis: Iron Chancellor’s iron will and single plan
Feb 29, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Commentary
When the Migrant crisis came into focus, we strongly suggested to our readers this crisis is likely to reshape Europe, more than it did during the debt crisis and it would also make the immigration key arguments in...
Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe's refugee crisis?
Feb 26, 2016 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views
In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health and wellbeing of...
Crisis or opportunity? How European countries use refugees for political gain
Feb 26, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
After no fewer than five emergency summits, a solution to Europes refugee crisis remains elusive. The list of failures is long and growing including the failure to deliver hotspots, reception centres meant to process...