While the EU officially opposes returning Syrians, there is growing informal and political buy-in on the front of rethinking certain areas of Syria as safe to return refugees
Media mentions – Migration
Now leaders like al-Sisi and Saied feel more confident that they will be given leeway to cement their power and use financial support to do the bare minimum to sustain people in these countries
Kelly Petillo comments on the EU’s strategy to support North African governments to curb migration
It effectively just serves to give them control, as they’re able to threaten Europe with a wave of migrants whenever they want to extract more money, or other political concessions from them
Every pact delegates power and part of our interest to external actors, autocrats, more or less fragile states, or warlords
We should get real about migration policies: relying on authoritarian regimes only delegates our interests and increases the power of these regimes
Efforts to curb labour emigration must be accompanied by initiatives to attract workers back to the [Western Balkan] region
Majlinda Bregu reports on unemployment and emigration in the Western Balkans
It would not be the first time that internal Libyan actors claim in some way to want unity and then instead disregard these chances and possibilities
Arturo Varvelli comments on the Libyan scenario and Tripoli’s willingness to form a joint force with the southern region
They have helped each other many times, supporting each other politically
Teresa Coratella comments on Giorgia Meloni’s position in Europe and her political relation with Ursula Von Der Leyen
Migration remains a structural deficit for both EU institutions and member states, still conceived as a crisis, although it should be addressed as a recurrent global process
Teresa Coratella argues that Italy’s proposed migration model is unlikely to serve as a blueprint for other EU countries due to limited logistical and budgetary capacities among member states.
Without a solution to the problem of returning migrants, who have not received protection in the EU, the effectiveness of any reforms to asylum law and migration rules will be illusory
