Policy Brief #10, 2016
Migration has moved to the top of the global political agenda in recent times. The unprecedented influx of refugees to Europe, on the one hand, and the high rate of South–North economic migration on the other, have led to sharp political and public ...
Almost two years have passed since Eurasian Economic Union started functioning, which allows drawing certain conclusions. Dmitry Poletaev, Director at the Center for Migration Studies, shared his opinion on the changes in the area of migration during this period with RIAC editing team.
In your opinion, how has the EAEU establishment benefitted countries benefitted the migrants from the Union’s countries? Has their ...
... Norway has changed its attitude to migrants? Should we expect that Norway will refuse to accept migrants in the future?
Anders Kjellevold
: As in the rest of Europe, the refugee crisis has affected the political climate in Norway. The increase in immigration has generated much debate, and immigration is now a much more important issue for voters than it was just a few years ago. This has played to the benefit of The Progress Party, part of the ruling coalition together with the Conservative Party,...
On September 22-23 Moscow hosted
the II International Conference “Migration Crisis: International Cooperation and National Strategies,” organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Russian Federation Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (
RANEPA
). The conference ...
In September 22, 2016 the II International Conference “Migration Crisis: International Cooperation and National Strategies,” organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Russian Federation Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) started its ...
... Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeev received Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva. The RIAC editing team had an opportunity to talk with the Minister and get his opinion on Portugal’s economic recovery, migration issues and domestic stability.
Portugal is one of the European countries which has suffered the most from the economic crisis. Can we say now that it has mostly managed to recover or not?
The recovery is ongoing. We have already made some progress ...
... Discussion Club event with António Guterres, a UN Secretary-General candidate, UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2005-2015 and Portuguese prime minister in 1995-2002.
Mr. Guterres presented his vision of the origins and ways to overcome the global migration crisis, and then answered numerous questions on migration, which he sees as a natural and inevitable process that can be hardly blocked. What the states can do is improve the relevant regulation mechanisms and make the process legal and streamlined....
On May 25- 27, 2016 Berlin hosted a Dahrendorf Symposium (
Dahrendorf Forum
), which traditionally fosters open debate on European and world politics.
The Dahrendorf Forum is a joint initiative by the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Stiftung Mercator. The project cycle of 2016 has been titled “
Europe
and the World – Global Insecurity & Power Shifts
.”
The Symposium was attended by over four hundred politicians, experts...
... various nations, as well as by leading research centres across the globe.
Particular attention is paid to assessments of the situation regarding terrorists leaving, and then coming back to Europe, Russia and Central Asian countries; the link between migration and the recruitment of terrorists; and an analysis of the most common factors driving recruitment.
This paper also includes a review of methods used by other countries to combat the recruitment of terrorists, as well as measures taken to reintegrate ...
It might be fair to say that no other phenomenon of today’s world politics demonstrates the deficitof global governance as vividly as does the current migration crisis. The topicof the disaster not only makesthe front pageand a staple of TV news shows, but also provokes lively and often heated discussion on the Internet. The migration issue is becoming particularly dramaticfor our western neighbours,...