Media mentions – Migration
The accords with the EU and Italy even undermine the rights of refugees and migrants
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
Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard on European public opinion ahead of the European Parliament elections
Doing these reforms in a meaningful way would require the Egyptian government to make a big change in the economic policies it has followed so far
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
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
People are wrong to think that the best way to beat the far right is by aping its policies on migration
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