Experts
Manos Matsaganis
Head of the Greek and European Economy Programme; A. G. Leventis Foundation Senior Research Fellow; Professor, Polytechnic University of Milan
Angeliki Dimitriadi
Senior Research Fellow; Head of the Migration Programme
Eugenia Vella
Research Fellow; Assistant Professor, AUEB; International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
On Thursday 12 September 2024 ELIAMEP organized an online roundtable on “EU migration policy”.
The roundtable started with a discussion of recent political developments that suggest that an anti-migration stand is increasingly popular with the Left as well as with the Right, as the cases of Germany and Denmark suggest. It then moved to an assessment of the recent EU pact on migration and asylum. The conundrum of how to reconcile our economies’ needs for more migrants in the context of labour shortages and demographic change, with our societies’ seemingly low tolerance for migration, was at the heart of the roundtable. Our panellists broadly agreed that the new European Commission ought to work towards building legal pathways for migration inflows, moving away from border controls, and investing more on integration policies aiming to facilitate assimilation and smooth social tensions.
Panel
Angeliki Dimitriadi, Head, Migration Programme, ELIAMEP
Elias Dinas, Professor, European University Institute, Florence
Tommaso Frattini, Professor of Economics, University of Milan
Evgenia Vella, Assistant Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business
Moderator
Manos Matsaganis, Professor, Polytechnic University of Milan; Head of the Greek & European Economy Programme, ELIAMEP
The invitation is available here.
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