Tuesday, June 25, 2013
1.15 (PC Hoofthuis)
Since the publication of its Global Approach to Migration in 2005(COM(2005) 390Final) the EU has been striving to develop its migration policy. In this respect the EU has concluded a number of mobility partnerships programmes with neighbouring countries. However, because of constitutional constraints concerning the division of competences with the member states and because of political contingencies such as the economic crisis and the Arab spring, the major developments occurred at EU level on migration really concern security and border controls. Parallel to this, the economic crises within the EU threatens the funds normally destined to promote knowledge-related mobility such as the Erasmus Programme and the Research and Innovation Fund (http://euobserver.com/news/117735).
This part of the panel wishes to analyse the norms and principles of the EU legal order that could help the integration process to overtake the current impasse at home and abroad.
