Migrants & BritainSaving SchengenThe EU & migration
  • Central and East European migrants are a boon for Britain
    Bulletin article by John Springford, 25 March 2013
    Central and East European migrants are a boon for Britain
  • Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
    Report by Hugo Brady, 20 January 2012
    Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
  • The EU and migration: A call for action
    Essay by Charles Clarke, 01 December 2011
    The EU and migration: A call for action
  • Saving Schengen: How to protect passport-free travel in Europe
    Report by Hugo Brady, 20 January 2012

    Schengen countries must decide when Bulgaria and Romania should join, whether Greece should leave and how to work more closely with Turkey on border control.
  • Schengen's 'black swan' moment?
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 19 December 2011

    Europe's leaders are - understandably - focused on the euro crisis, pretty much to the exclusion of all else. But policy-makers should beware another calamity in 2012: a possible breakdown of the EU's Schengen zone of passport-free travel. Undoubtedly, these two troubled flagships of European integration share parallels.
  • The EU and migration: A call for action
    Essay by Charles Clarke, 01 December 2011

    All across the EU, voters are worried about immigration. Charles Clarke outlines the steps needed at EU level if governments are to tackle migration issues effectively.
  • Britain, Ireland and Schengen: Time for a smarter bargain on visas
    Essay by Michael Emerson, 28 July 2011

    Travellers to the Schengen area – the EU's passport-free travel zone – can move freely between most EU countries but need separate visas for Britain and Ireland, which maintain their own border controls.

  • Why the EU needs a migration organisation
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    European Voice, 01 June 2011

    A European Migration Organisation would help the EU develop clearer responses to migration. EU leaders will discuss reform of the Schengen area at their summit next week (23-24 June).

  • Sarkozy-Berlusconi: A border control farce
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    The Guardian, 29 April 2011

    When Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi announced plans to weaken passport-free travel in Europe this week, many onlookers concluded that the EU's most tangible achievement, the Schengen zone, was going the way of the single currency.
  • The EU’s new politics of movement
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 17 February 2011

    The freedom enjoyed by EU citizens to live and work in each others' countries is a unique liberty. It is the basis around which European governments have tried to build a single border, a compensatory system of co-operation between police, judges and immigration officers and a common refugee policy.
  • Immigration: Why Brussels will be blamed
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 27 September 2010

    Liberal Sweden elects an explicitly anti-immigrant party to parliament for the first time. France's president and the European Commission lacerate each other in public over deportations of Roma.