Agnese Pacciardi
At the end of July, over the space of two days, around 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The largest such crossing on record, it became the first real-world test of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum. Agnese Pacciardi says the crisis resulted in weakened solidarity between member states, rushed deportations, and the neglect of human rights Read more
Yunus Poblome
Right-wing populism has gone beyond the nation state. Analysing JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, Yunus Poblome describes how US foreign policy under Trump depicts Europe as being led by a corrupt elite which refuses to listen to its conservative people. This, he argues, further legitimise Europe’s own right-wing populists Read more
Zeynep Şahin Mencütek
The European Commission has proposed a new system for returning third-country nationals staying illegally in the EU: sending them to designated holding areas before deportation. Zeynep Şahin Mencütek and Soner Barthoma explain why its plan will not work Read more
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