EU Vice-President Schinas to local leaders: “We need frontline soldiers like you!”

In recent years, Europe has faced the most serious migratory crisis since World War II. Immigration is a complex issue which has had a profound local impact in countless municipalities and regions.

That is why CEMR’s Policy Committee met on Thursday (25 February) with the EU Commission vice-president responsible for migration, Margaritis Schinas, to discuss the local realities of immigration, how this phenomenon can best be managed and how EU policies can be most supportive. “Today Europe does not have a common position – we only have a patchwork of solutions,” said Schinas.

CEMR has been calling for a common and impactful European asylum policy at all levels of government since 2015. Five years after the peak of the migration crisis, the European Commission finally presented the long-expected Pact on migration and asylum in September 2020.

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