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
  • EU JHA co-operation: After Lisbon, reality bites
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 24 June 2010

    EU policies on policing, justice and immigration were widely expected to take a big leap forward after the ratification of the Lisbon treaty.
  • Choices for Europe
    CER - University of Birmingham, Essay by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 May 2009

    Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, ageing populations, climate change and security challenges on the borders of Europe have been some of the top priorities on the European agenda since the early 1990s. The EU has tried to tackle these issues, notably through its commitments to reduce greenhouse gases and its Lisbon strategy for economic growth.

  • Towards a better EU migration policy
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 08 April 2009

    Over the last decade, EU countries have experienced a rapid rise in both legal and illegal migration, mostly from Turkey, Morocco, Albania, Algeria and Serbia. Each spring and summer, Mediterranean member-states struggle to cope as migrants perish attempting to reach Europe from North Africa in unseaworthy and over-crowded boats.
  • Britain's Schengen dilemma
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 10 February 2009

    Britain supports more EU co-operation against terrorism, crime and illegal immigration and has done so for over a decade. This is because effective justice co-operation has clearly been in the national interest (as with the speedy capture and extradition of one of the 2005 London bombers from Italy to Britain).
  • Farewell, Polish plumber
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 07 August 2008

    When the EU expanded its membership in 2004, the UK was one of only three EU countries – Ireland and Sweden were the others – fully to open its borders to migrants from the ten new member states.
  • The new politics of EU internal security
    Insight by Hugo Brady, 28 March 2008

    EU interior ministers are racing to finish a raft of new legislation on terrorism, crime and illegal immigration by the end of the year. One reason for their sudden sense of urgency is politics.
  • EU migration policy: An A-Z
    Essay by Hugo Brady, 01 February 2008

    More and more people want to come to Europe to live and work. This is a welcome development, given Europe's ageing population. But increasing migration poses big challenges for EU governments.

  • Wanted: An EU migration policy
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    E!Sharp, 04 January 2008

    With the European Commission pushing its blue card work permit scheme and France calling for an EU pact on migration, Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform asks whether the Union is - at last - about to move beyond rhetoric to action.