E102: Fortress Europe or Open Borders? The Future of Migration Policy

EU governments are outdoing each other in introducing tough anti-immigration measures, embracing policies that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Poland is pushing to suspend the right to asylum, Germany has reinstated border controls, and Italy has opened two centres to process asylum seekers outside its borders. Now, EU leaders are considering ramping up deportations, aiming to send desperate people back to their countries of origin.

All these measures point in the same direction: a Fortress Europe. Meanwhile, parties pushing for stricter immigration controls are gaining power in several EU countries and making significant strides in elections. And many citizens in host countries, feeling neglected by their governments and suffering from stagnant economic conditions, are increasingly hostile to migrants, seeing them as a burden on public resources and a threat to job security.

What’s really driving this new clampdown on migration? What does it mean for the future of Europe’s approach to migration and human rights? And in this current political climate, what should our response be?

Join Yanis Varoufakis, Miguel Duarte, Amir Kiyaei, Federico Dolce and Marie-Olivia Badarne as discuss Europe's migration policies and what it means for Europe. Tune in live and share your questions!

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[johnkirk]

No mention of infastructure, the main key problem

[johonimo]

Migration in terms of world population in the 70s was 2.3% during 2020 it reached 3.6%. That's about 56% increase

[RikiSchwitzerlandman]

🤩🤩🤩🤩 Thank you 🙏 👏👏👏...tell the truth...💪💪💪 👏👏👏 Thank you 🙏 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[simondancaster]

Yanis has so many valid points he expresses in a clear, historically contextualised manner. Humane yet fearless. Knowledgeable and nuanced. Always worth listening to.

[vivalaleta]

Yanis just dealing out the facts. Thank you.

[Camcolito]

I am with Diem25 on most issues except immigration. I cannot figure out what their policy is except a lot of empty theorizing seeping out from universities and wishful thinking.

[commonman]

Movement of people has gone on for thousands of years without proper checks. I'm not a racist and I'm not against immigration but been swamped is a head ache every country, war and famine and straight forward terror has to stop and then we might be able to deal with it.

[musiqtee]

11:32 Yes, Yanis - I’m slightly younger than you, but saw something coming as well. Emergent from our own manipulated choices, as the majority of us supported “liberalism”.

The crumbling of civic & societal economic agency across OECD should be blamed on our own (again, majority) beliefs over time. How the narrative changed, what historical materialism or the most naive dialectical insight reveals.

So, our (corporate) leaders make us blame everyone “outside”, the oldest trick in the book (including the oldest of books…).

Any insight not in line with financial liberalism was (is) branded heterodox and thus alienated. From our public discourse, media and vocabulary used to frame economics (ecology) in any meaningful way. Also from me. I was just a kid in the 70’s, so…

…I made my own path of relearning just around the bank bailouts. Starting with Stiglitz, and “found” you shortly before DiEM25 and PI was founded. (My list of authors is now way above sixty…)

I’m proudly a member of both. Carpe Diem…! 👍

[Alden]

Why have Armenians been blamed for all sorts of shit?

[colinbrigham]

We are an ageing population and need new blood the right wing movement is a one way street leading to ignorance and self destruction 😊

[yogilyfe]

Migration is not a problem. It’s the politicians.