30 Years of EU Migration and Asylum Policies: success or failure?

The meeting will explore the current challenges affecting migration throughout Europe.

Thirty years ago the Maastricht Treaty was signed, creating today’s ‘European Union’ and representing the biggest single transformative text on European integration since the Treaty of Rome in 1958. As internal barriers began to fall, new walls and policies have risen between Europe and the rest of the world. How did Maastricht treaty affect migration through and to Europe? How have migration policies developed today?

Speakers: Sophie Magennis (@Magenniss), Head of Policy and Legal Support at UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs; Florian Trauner (@ftrauner), Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe; Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSE.
Chair: Eiko Thielemann (@thielema), Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy in the Department of Government and the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.