Illegal migration is mainly related to how many of the smugglers manage to sustain their business – at what cost, who their political patron is, how they overcome “Captain Andreevo”
Vessela Tcherneva comments on the Romanian elections and the Bulgarian problems with border policing
There’s a paradox, because on the one side, all the regional crises have made Egypt weaker, but at the same time they’re all making it even more significant to be kept afloat
Closing borders for checks is being too instrumentalised and I am not sure if it will have the desired effect of addressing migration
I do not think that Schengen is fatally threatened, but rather that there are certain limitations
Piotr Buras on the risk associated with the fact that Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk is planning to temporarily suspend the right of asylum
The impression is that for the EU there is no alternative to Saied and I expect the so-called business as usual between Brussels and Tunis to continue
Berlin is more concerned with the perception of the policy, rather than its successful implementation. It creates the impression of separation from unreliable neighbours
Karolina Wigura on the German government’s decision to reimpose checks at its borders
When the argument that we must “be pragmatic” is the first to be put on the table, principles – memory, responsibility, care for vulnerable people, you name it – have already been suspended
Lea Ypi on British interest in the migrant pact struck between Italy and Albania
National elections are next year and everything that is said or decided is already part of the election campaign
