Floodgates or Turnstiles? EU mobility and migration policy
Immigration and the mobility of people around Europe are at the core of some of the most critical policy challenges facing the EU today. National governments remain reluctant to give away power over their migration policies to EU institutions; nonetheless EU countries have signed up to a wide-ranging migration pact, a commitment to co-ordinate their immigration policies more closely, and are agreeing a new ‘blue card’ scheme for migrant workers. A seminar with the Centre for European Reform (CER) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). With Vladimir Spidla, employment and social affairs commissioner; Danny Sriskandarajah, Head of Migration, Equalities and Citizenship, Institute for Public Policy Research; Bela Galgoczi, senior researcher, European Trade Union Institute; David Gow, European business editor, The Guardian; Goran Hultin, Consultant, Manpower; Hugo Brady, research fellow, CER; and Steffen Angenendt, research fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
Chaired by Paul Adamson