The EU’s Migration Challenge [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

At a special European Council meeting convened on 23 April 2015 after up to 900 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe from Africa, European Union heads of state and government agreed to increase funding for immigration and asylum policies and strengthen EU presence at sea to prevent further loss of life.

Think tanks have long urged the bloc to be bolder in tackling the problem. This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports on the topic from major international think tanks and research institutes.

Written by Marcin Grajewski.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Extraordinary European Council, Brussels, 23 April 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/extraordinary-european-council-brussels-23-april-2015/

ECFR: Commentary, 29.04.15: A European shipwreck http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_a_european_shipwreck3015

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_a_principles_approach_to_migration3005 http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_a_principles_approach_to_migration3005

Carnege Europe: Strategic Europe, 23.04.15: Migrants Challenge Europe’s Comfort Zone http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=59886

openDemocracy: openSecurity, 20.04.15: Crisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change course https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/nils-mui%C5%BEnieks/crisis-in-mediterranean-europe-must-change-course

openDemocracy: Tag: People flow - Migration in Europe https://www.opendemocracy.net/editorial-tags/people-flow-migration-in-europe

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

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