"Toward a Common European Migration Regime?" Briefing with Rainer Muz	Events > Event Announcement

For more than two centuries, Western European countries were primarily countries of emigration. Over the last 50 years however, they have become significant destinations for international migrants. European Union (EU) member states in Central Europe (as of May 1, 2004) will likely follow a similar pattern.

Since the EU Amsterdam Treaty (1997) and Tampere summit (1999), regulation of migration has become a national and EU issue. Furthermore, migration was high on the agenda of the Seville (2002) and Thessaloniki (2003) EU summits and the draft of the European constitution defines and distributes the responsibilities in the field of migration and integration between member states and the EU.

Discussion will focus on the current struggle for common European migration policies, and the desire of EU member states to maintain considerable autonomy on the issues.

This briefing is part of MPI’s “Migration Policies and Processes in Europe” visitor series funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington DC.

WHO:
Professor Rainer Münz, Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, former Director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science

Moderated by Demetrios Papademetriou, President and Co-founder, MPI

WHEN:
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
8:30-10:00 a.m.
A light breakfast will be provided.

WHERE:
MPI Conference Room at 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 300.

RSVP:
Acceptances only to Ana Claros at (202) 266-1940 or aclaros@migrationpolicy.org.