After seven years of bitter wrangling, the EU has lastly reached an settlement on the best way to deal with migration — one in all its most difficult and divisive points.
On this episode of EU Confidential we have a look at what’s within the deal, which has been hailed as successful by Brussels however criticized by NGOs and human rights teams.
Host Sarah Wheaton and Jacopo Barigazzi, POLITICO’s senior diplomatic correspondent, discuss to Catherine Woolard — director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles — concerning the particulars of the brand new settlement and the way efficient it could be.
Later our visitor is Professor Florian Trauner, an knowledgeable on migration on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He explains how migration has develop into the central problem forward of the European election in June, and the way far-right events are co-opting it for political achieve.
