International Migration

Tipping point: The risks of Palestinian displacement for Egypt

  • Kelly Petillo
  • Commentary

Israel’s expanding ground-offensive threatens to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into neighbouring Egypt. This would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation and risks destabilising Egypt, an important European partner

Migrants with life jackets provided by volunteers of the Ocean Viking, a migrant search and rescue ship run by NGOs SOS Mediterranee and the International Federation of Red Cross (IFCR), still sail in a wooden boat as they are being rescued, Aug. 27, 2022, in the Mediterranean sea. The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant boats off Greece that left at least 22 people dead this week has once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route to Europe.

Road to nowhere: Why Europe’s border externalisation is a dead end

  • Lorena Stella Martini, Tarek Megerisi
  • Policy Brief

Europeans need to stop handing control of their borders to southern Mediterranean states. Instead, they should pursue measures that tie the short-term imperative to reduce irregular migration to longer-term strategies that lessen the need for people to migrate in the first place

After Jenin: A European response to West Bank escalation

  • Hugh Lovatt
  • Policy Alert

Israel’s operations on the West Bank are a counterproductive way to deal with armed groups. European action should focus on helping to address the drivers of the recent surge of violence