Spanish Presidency’s call for “a preventive model” for migration: more of the same
Read original article on site.Image: jafaralshamma, CC BY 2.0 From reaction to prevention The introduction of the paper (pdf) focuses on “migration and asylum pressures” in different geographical spaces and across different routes since the Syrian war in 2015, including recent coups and earthquakes, interpreting them as evidence of “the importance of the external dimension in managing flows to the EU”. Tragic events in distant regions are viewed as producing “serious negative migratory consequences” for EU member states, which are currently evident in Italy and the island of Lampedusa. Despite recognising a “bleak outlook,” EU policy is not called into question: rather, the paper calls for more force, resources and efficiency for “the external dimension of migration”, “the challenge of (...)