🇪🇺📊 The @ec.europa.eu has released its first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report. It maps the migratory situation across all Member States and outlines who may receive support — and who is expected to provide it. The key question: can the system work in practice? 🧩

Es freut mich, einen Beitrag für @bpb.de zum Thema EU-Informationskampagnen zur Abschreckung irregulärer Migration verfasst zu haben. Frei online abrufbar👇 www.bpb.de/themen/migra...

🚨 New publication out! Together with @linavosyliute.bsky.social, we examine the EU’s risk of falling into a far-right trap in the negotiations on the Return Regulation. 📄 Published as an open-access Policy Brief by @birmm.bsky.social l — free to read & share! zenodo.org/records/1696...

Our article on the impact on Russia's war against Ukraine on the reform of the Common European Asylum System has finally ended its "early view"-status. It found a home in the current issue of European Politics and Society - and is still freely accessible to all. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to have engaged with the 'Foundation for Family Businesses and Politics' on the subject of migration, skills shortages and Europe's strive to attract talent. #SkillsShortage #EuropeanTalent #FamilyBusinesses youtu.be/0CWWsldfufg?...

Before the 2015 refugee crisis, the cash-strapped World Food Programme had to drop 1/3 of its Syrian refugees from food vouchers in its Middle Eastern programme. A few months later, arrival numbers in Europe increased. Now, 10 years later, all of this seems forgotten... www.ft.com/content/976f...

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we reflect on the EU’s asylum system—strained by growing use of national emergency powers to control migration. Is this eroding EU asylum standards? 📘 Read our new @birmm.bsky.social Policy Brief: zenodo.org/records/1565... #Refugees #EUAsylum #MigrationPolicy

🎓👏 We are thrilled to share that on 16 June 2025, Folashade Ajayi successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Between making sense of and sensing Black activism in Germany". The BSoG would like to congratulate Dr. Ajayi on this wonderful achievement! #PhD #BSoG #VUB #research #BlackActivism

Speech of Commissioner Marta Kos at #EUIA25 is now published ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

“Enlargement remains the greatest geopolitical success of the EU”. Enlargement commissioner Marta Kos at #EUIA25

#EUIA25 has started. Interesting discussion in the EU’s international role. A first panel is chaired by Julien Jeandesboz and concerns liberalism, borders and sovereignty.

📢 Join us at BIRMM/VUB for a guest lecture by Prof. Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche @mlbg.bsky.social: “Bordering, Ordering, Othering: The Legal Thickening of EU Frontiers” 🗓️ 27 May, 🕛 12:00 PM. Open to all – register here 👉 birmm.research.vub.be/bordering-or... #Migration #EUlaw #BIRMM #VUB

Ich freue mich sehr, dass mein Beitrag diese neue Blogreihe des Netzwerks @fluchtforschung.bsky.social eröffnet. Er behandelt, wie Mitgliedstaaten anhand von nationalen Notfallmaßnahmen die EU-Asylpolitik mehr und mehr beeinflussen.

Pleased to announce our new publications on the role of narratives in migratory decision-making in the Gambia. A particular focus is on whether EU-promoted narratives can compete with local ones and actually influence migratory decision-making. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great article to understand what Trump is doing to America beyond economic damage. It's about destroying cosmopolitism and installing a security mind-set. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

If Frontex is beefed up to 30,000 staffers, it will be increasingly member states assisting Frontex in its activities and no longer Frontex assisting member states in theirs. www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(2): Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU by Philipp Stutz & Florian Trauner @ftrauner.bsky.social Download and read for free:

Great initiative by the #VUB, opening up for American scholars and researchers. The @bsog.be may have to play a particular role in this, being the VUB's most international entity and already having several American colleagues. www.brusselstimes.com/1490737/brus...

Official text of new proposal for EU Regulation on expulsion of non-EU migrants staying irregularly (replacing the current Returns Directive) Text - home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/proposal-reg... Press release - ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Qs and As - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The Commission will publish today its proposal "a common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union". The overarching objective is to increase the EU's return rate and open possibilities for new measures such as return hubs in third countries. A 🧵

Austria is suggesting to stop the family reunification for asylum seekers due to an emergency and overburdened systems. What are its precise arguments and can this fly inside the EU? #Austria; #asylum; #emergency

Update - our article "Democracy Matters (To Some Extent): Autocracies, Democracies and the Forced Return of Migrants from the EU" has now shifted away from an early view-status. It is still openly accessible for everyone! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

These proposals are very far-reaching. Would undermine Schengen, the (just recently reformed) EU asylum system & international principles. Headless, anti-European stuff. @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in a case involving push-back practices at the Greek-Turkish border. Is this likely to become a landmark case? hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press#{%...

In Austria, far-right leader Kickl gets the chance to form a coalition government. "Europe" will be one of the major sticking points in the negotiations. What can we expect for European governance, should Kickl become Austria's Chancellor? www.politico.eu/article/far-...

What about first helping to stabilize a key country in the Middle East and convincing Syrians not to work any more with Russia? Signaling restrictive migration policies may go down well in some EU member states but gives exactly the wrong impressions abroad... www.politico.eu/article/aust...

1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾

Interested in how the Russian war against Ukraine impacted the negotiations on reforming the common European asylum system? How have the events in Eastern Europe affected the EU's asylum reform? Then check out our new article published in an open access format. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@politico.eu reports that the Commission plans as a first migration proposal a revised 'Return Directive' (already in February). This timing will prevent a proper assessment of whether the EU really needs the law - but the move will signal restrictive priorities. www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

My first tweet on Bluesky, quite exiting 😀. In any case, I look very much forward to engaging now here with colleagues and interested people!