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In a recent opinion piece in Foreign Policy – a publication dedicated primarily to global affairs – Philippe Legrain argues that immigrants are in the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and that we need more migration to revive Western economies in a post-coronavirus world. Of course, there is nothing...

When news broke that a vaccine against COVID-19 developed by a Turkish-born couple in Germany has promising results, many media reports placed the ethnic background of these scientists above the importance of the story itself. While migrant entrepreneurship might still be regarded as something rare in Germany, research shows that...

A compelling political narrative is imperative for the survival of the European Union. Populists chip away at the foundations of liberal democracy while foreign powers actively interfere in Europe’s domestic affairs using “alternative facts” to breed fear and undermine social cohesion. In the words of Josep Borrell, the European Union’s...

During a meeting with Driss El Kaissi, Morocco’s consul general in Strasbourg, France, Stefanek reviewed Morocco’s initiatives in the field of migration on the national and continental levels.

Whether we’re looking at The Correspondent, the world atlas or the national news, migration across the Mediterranean is depicted on maps as thick red arrows heading towards us. Far more than we realize, these arrows define how we view migration. Can that be changed?

People hold diverse and seemingly contradictory attitudes towards immigration – they can support reductions while recognizing the positive economic and cultural impact of immigrants in their country. Segmentation across high-income countries shows roughly half of people form a ‘conflicted’ middle: neither for nor against migration. Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration...

While the number of people crossing the Channel has recently increased, it remains low and manageable compared to other countries in Europe and beyond, demonstrating how much of an overreaction this is. But relying on numbers is part of the problem we, the globalists, have created. So how did we...

At its July plenary session, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hosted a debate with Commission Vice-President, Margaritis Schinas, who presented several upcoming initiatives falling under his portfolio of "Promoting our European Way of Life", including the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Skills Agenda, the EU for...

The Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES Group) in the European Committee of the Regions aims at taking forward a progressive European vision with solidarity as well as social and territorial cohesion at its core. As Europe finds itself at the centre of the COVID-19 pandemic, locla and...