Can the EU manage migration?

EU Confidential

POLITICO

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After seven years of bitter wrangling, the EU has finally reached an agreement on how to handle migration — one of its most challenging and divisive issues. In this episode of EU Confidential we look at what's in the deal, which has been hailed as a success by Brussels but criticized by NGOs and human rights groups. Host Sarah Wheaton and Jacopo Barigazzi, POLITICO's senior diplomatic correspondent, talk to Catherine Woolard — director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles — about the details of the new agreement and how effective it might be. Later our guest is Professor Florian Trauner, an expert on migration at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He explains how migration has become the central issue ahead of the European election in June, and how far-right parties are co-opting it for political gain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	Today is truly a historic day.
0:34.0	We have defied the odds.
0:35.7	Am I proud?
0:37.0	Yes, I'm very proud. This is a great success
0:40.2	for Europe. Finally, we have managed... What's all that celebration about? Well, after years of bitter
0:46.6	wrangling, impasses and stalemates, the EU reached a political breakthrough on migration and asylum
0:52.9	rules.
0:56.1	It's been seven years in the making.
1:00.8	And in the final stretch, officials from the European Parliament, member states, and the commission engaged in exhausting, 48-hour, last-ditch negotiations that finally produced an agreement.
1:08.5	European countries have agreed on a migration deal that will see a...
1:12.0	The European Union announced a breakthrough agreement on new tougher rules for migration.
1:16.7	It came after overnight...
1:18.0	So they struck a deal at the very end of last year as most people were heading off for the holidays.
1:23.6	And because of that, there hasn't really been a lot of time to process and analyze the news
1:27.8	and what it means in the selection year. Until now.
1:32.4	I'm Sarah Wheaton, host of EU Confidential.
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