In the paper Auswanderungswünsche in der Bevölkerung, expert Sabine Pokorny reveals a very worrisome reality which is humiliating for today's Germany: roughly every fifth resident admits that they may leave the country in the near future.

What is the Deadly Danger of This New Drug?

Italy Falling into a Gap Between Achievements on Paper and What Happens in Reality

The European Policy Centre, a Belgian-based non-profit think tank that fosters European integration through analysis and discussions, hosted a series of joint topical discussions with Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations. The debate concentrated on a turning point on EU migration policy: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is due to be fully implemented already in June 2026. How ready is it?

How EU and Member States’ Regulations Serve to Breed Illegal Migrants

What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?

The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.

Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector

Hungary enters the spring of 2026 in a state of mounting socio-economic uncertainty as parliamentary elections loom on 12 April. For the first time in sixteen years, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz government face a serious political challenge from the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar.

Germany thought it had migration under control. This working paper shows otherwise. Flows through the Western Balkans remain a quiet but persistent pressure point, feeding Germany’s asylum system and exposing gaps between policy promises and reality. The system is not collapsing, but it is creaking under strain that politicians prefer not to spotlight.

Under a European Union grant, Blanca Garcés, senior research fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), has prepared an extensive report about the living and working conditions of agricultural migrant workers in four European countries (Italy, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands) and one African country (Morocco).

Europe risks losing its long-term influence in the Sahel. That will happen if the Old World countries fail to understand the driving forces of rising anticolonialism and to adapt their approaches in Africa to the new realities.

Several months before the milestone Pact on Migration and Asylum enters into force and lays a basis for a large-scale reform of the bloc’s migration policy, the European Commission published another curious document on the topic. This is the first European asylum and migration management strategy It defines the priorities that will guide the agreement's implementation over the next five years.