EU migration policy: comments on the results of the latest European Council

Alongside ‘Grexit’ and ‘Brexit’, the upsurge in immigration to the European Union is a further crisis which the EU has to juggle simultaneously. The first round of EU reactions to the crisis culminated in the emergency EU summit (‘European Council’) in April 2015. Subsequently, the European Commission released its ‘Agenda’ on EU migration in mid-May 2015, and its detailed proposals later the same month.

On the 25 June 2015 the European Council discussed immigration issues again, and came to a number of conclusions. This blog post sets out those conclusions, with the author's comments annotated.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: European Council, Brussels, 25-26 June 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-council-brussels-25-26-june-2015/

ESO: Background information: EU migration meeting turns into fracas http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-migration-meeting-turns-into-fracas/

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

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