Brussels’ Digital Ambitions Depend on Imported Skills
Brussels has spent the past decade arguing about migration. Now, quietly and with remarkably little political theatre, it has decided it needs more of it. Not the kind that fills…
Migration covers EU migration and asylum policy, border management and Schengen, visas and legal pathways, asylum procedures and reception, returns and readmission, integration, anti-trafficking, search-and-rescue, and the external dimension with partner countries. Reporting includes legislation, court rulings, data trends and operational developments involving the Pact on Migration and Asylum, Frontex and national authorities.
Brussels has spent the past decade arguing about migration. Now, quietly and with remarkably little political theatre, it has decided it needs more of it. Not the kind that fills…
EU lawmakers have backed a fresh tightening of the bloc’s asylum rules, endorsing measures that would accelerate the rejection of some claims and expand the circumstances in which applicants can…
There was a time — not very long ago — when Sweden occupied a peculiar moral pedestal in the European imagination. It was the humanitarian superpower, the country that insisted…
Sweden’s centre-right government has announced that asylum seekers will be required to live in designated reception centres while their claims are assessed. State benefits will depend on cooperation with the…
The European Commission has launched a paired package intended to guide EU action on migration and visas over the next five years, setting priorities on border management, returns, cooperation with…
Sir Keir Starmer’s latest gambit — signing a border security agreement with the People’s Republic of China to “help disrupt small boat supply lines” — is exactly the sort of…
Denmark is set to record one of its lowest annual totals for asylum residence permits after government figures showed that 839 permits were issued in the first 11 months of…
Germany’s Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria is pushing forward an ambitious plan to tighten the country’s immigration laws and begin the mass deportation of Syrian migrants following the end…
Cyprus began its six-month term as holder of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 January 2026, taking over from Denmark and chairing Council formations…
Sir Keir Starmer likes to speak the language of control. Control of borders, control of systems, control restored after years of drift. Yet on the Channel beaches of northern France,…
The Netherlands’ Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has approved far fewer first-time asylum applications in 2025 than a year earlier, citing a shift in the assessment of Syrian cases, the…