Halting ambition: EU migration and security policy in the Sahel

Summary

+ The EU should integrate political and technical advice for Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions and avoid ad hoc programmes disconnected from larger institutional strategies.
+ The EU should do more to press the governments of Niger and Mali to pursue substantive security sector reform and develop long-term national security strategies.
+ EU strategies and programmes in the Sahel should emphasise good governance, especially access to justice.
+ If CSDP missions fail to follow this approach, they are likely to have only a limited impact on the ground.

• Primary Source

ECFR: Commentary, 26.10.17: Sahel visit leaves fundamental issues unaddressed http://www.europeansources.info/record/sahel-visit-leaves-fundamental-issues-unaddressed/

German Institute for International and Security Affairs: SWP Comments No.52, December 2017: Mali, the G5 and Security Sector Assistance: Political Obstacles to Effective Cooperation http://www.europeansources.info/record/mali-the-g5-and-security-sector-assistance-political-obstacles-to-effective-cooperation/

Istituto Affari Internazionali: IAI Working Papers No.38, December 2017: The EU and the Sahel: A Laboratory of Experimentation for the Security–Migration–Development Nexus http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eu-and-the-sahel-a-laboratory-of-experimentation-for-the-security-migration-development-nexus/

European Commission: Meeting, 23.02.18: International High Level Conference on the Sahel, 23 February 2018 http://www.europeansources.info/record/international-high-level-conference-on-the-sahel-23-february-2018/

ECFR: Commentary, 08.03.18: G5 Sahel: Much done, more to do http://www.europeansources.info/record/g5-sahel-much-done-more-to-do/

Istituto Affari Internazionali: Documenti IAI No.11, April 2018: Avoiding the Sandstorm in the Sahel: A Reflection on Security, Migration and Development http://www.europeansources.info/record/avoiding-the-sandstorm-in-the-sahel-a-reflection-on-security-migration-and-development/

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