A principled approach to migration / Humanitarian emergency Mediterranean: ECFR Scorecard briefing / Prominent Europeans call for immediate action in the Mediterranean / Note from Berlin: Germany should pave the way for a common European Asylum and Migration System

With the emergency summit in Brussels on the 23 April 2015 the Mediterranean migrant crisis finally got top level attention. The intractable nature of the irregular migration problem never lent itself to decisive action let alone solutions. But the recurring drama is now fuelled by so much conflict and unrest around us that this is no longer an unfortunate ‘side-show.

But behind the usual rhetoric about solidarity, EU leaders failed to move even one inch on burden-sharing.

Difficult though the internal politics may be, we should have it in our power to uphold values within our own sphere and borders.

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

ECFR: Briefing, 23.04.15: Humanitarian emergency Mediterranean: ECFR Scorecard briefing http://www.ecfr.eu/article/humanitarian_emergency_in_the_mediterranean_ecfr_scorecard_briefing3004

ECFR: Commentary, 23.04.15: Prominent Europeans call for immediate action in the Mediterranean http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_prominent_europeans_call_for_immediate_action_in_the_mediterrane

ECFR: Commentary, 24.04.15: Note from Berlin: Germany should pave the way for a common European Asylum and Migration System http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_time_to_lead_germany_should_pave_the_way_for_a_common_europe3007

EP: EPRS: What Think Tanks Are Thnking: The EU’s migration challenge, April 2015 http://epthinktank.eu/2015/04/24/the-eus-migration-challenge-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

Spiegel Online International, 21.04.15: An Unending Refugee Tragedy: Europe's Path to Deadly Partition http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-policies-worsen-an-already-deadly-situation-for-immigrants-a-1030550.html

EurActiv, 28.04.15: UN, EU take symbolic boat ride in the ‘sea of tears’ http://www.euractiv.com/sections/global-europe/un-eu-take-symbolic-boat-ride-sea-tears-314142

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

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