... and finger-printing of refugees in Italy and Greece by November. According to the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the number of refugees may not be a problem for the EU, which has the capacity and experience to deal with the current migration crisis. Moreover, he added that the Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon and Jordan are embracing millions of refugees. Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said that last EU summit marked a major step forward in bringing the bloc towards Italy’s ...
... security by funding humanitarian efforts while also discouraging refugees from braving the perilous way to Europe. And yet, this initiative should be seen through for broader reasons, too, as it offers a chance to address one of the root causes of mass migration towards Europe’s shores.
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Dmitriy Kiku:
The United Nations: New Horizons
for Sustainable Development
According to Eurostat, in 2014 the world had over
14 million refugees
. The root of the refugee problem is conflict....
The migration crisis is clearly putting the ultra-right National Front in the lead
The powerful wave of migration from the Middle East and North Africa that is sweeping the Old World is making a serious impact on the measured pace of political life in the ...
Migration is a Blow to Central and Eastern European Identity
Hungary is under siege. Every day, thousands of refugees from Asia and Africa are crossing the border illegally. The country’s capital in the news reports on a daily basis against the ...
Described as movement of people to foreign countries for education, advanced training and acquiring new skills, intellectual migration is becoming a huge problem for Russia. The process can be both short- and long-term, up to change of citizenship, and engulfs students, young specialists and many others willing to become more knowledgeable and practiced. Globalization helps ...
... weather at sea is mostly good, we should expect another surge of refugees in the next few months.
A Response to A Strategic Challenge
Faced with an aggravating humanitarian disaster, last April 23 in Brussels, EU leaders held an emergency summit on
immigration
. On May 11, EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini
requested
that the UN Security Council intervene and check the refugee flows from Libya to Sicily, while at a May 18 press conference in Brussels,...
... ethnicity
[2]
. During the two decades of independence, their ethnic composition has drastically changed. On the one hand, de-Europeanization followed the massive outflow of non-Asians, while on the other, the titular ethnic groups gained ground through migration from the countryside. For example, over the period 1989-2014, the share of Uzbeks in Tashkent rose from 44 to 65 percent, while that of Russians dropped from 34 to 18 percent. Over the same period, the proportion of Kazakhs in Almaty grew from ...
Something happened there that none of us can cope with...
Hannah Arendt
The history of Europe has dark pages, so dark that their unearthing is viewed as being politically incorrect. Some say that the world has changed, including in discussion of the Holocaust. And this is hardly surprising because remembrance is associated with severe trauma and a desire to recover from the ordeal. Today’s European values appear to be found in much more general matters. However, this is not to say that the Holocaust...
... and strengthening the so-called green and blue border security beyond EU checkpoints (protection of the external borders of the EU).
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Alexander Tevdoy-Burmuli:
Dangerous Reefs: Mediterranean Challenges to
the EU’s Common Immigration Policy
The functions of border protection and control within the EU are carried out by national border services. Legislation on border control is adopted at the EU level, while regulations governing the protection of borders are still set by ...
The EU’s immigration policy has again found itself at the centre of attention following the tragic events of April 2015, when
two shipwrecks
in the Mediterranean Sea took the lives of more than a thousand North African refugees making an illegal attempt to reach ...
