Posted on 06 February 2014
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, of the EUI’s Global Governance Programme is taking part to a luncheon meeting organised by the Open Society European Policy Institute in collaboration with the President of the European Council on “Which way for EU migration policy after Stockholm? Promoting effective measures to manage human mobility and engage public opinion” on 11 February 2014, under Chatham house rule.
The aim of the meeting is to carry forward a constructive dialogue between the Council of Europe and select experts on how to guide the EU’s future planning on migration, both for immediate challenges and longer-term issues. Over the next months, the European Council will be defining guidelines on the Area of Freedom Security and Justice which are due for adoption in June 2014. Over the longer term, the challenge is to forge a new public consensus on the conditions under which various forms of immigration should occur in future, and by what criteria.
Among the policy priorities for discussion at the meeting, two topics stand out: the management of immigration of different types towards the EU with the concomitant full respect of their human rights, and public opinion campaigns aiming to tame xenophobic and racist reactions towards migration, particularly so as regards the free movement of persons among member states.