The Netherlands' Presidency of the European Union hosted a conference on "Future European Cooperation in the Field of Asylum, Migration and Frontiers" in Amsterdam from 31 August - 3 September 2004.

This event, organized by the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice with the support of the European Commission (ARGO) and the co-sponsorship of Germany and Sweden, was developed in close cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute. MPI President Demetrios G. Papademetriou chaired the three-day event.

The conference brought together policymakers from EU member states, the US, Canada, several non-EU European states and international organizations, as well as leading experts and researchers from around the world. Together, they analyzed the progress the European Union has made in developing its asylum, migration and frontiers policies, exchanged the latest thinking and research in these fields, and discussed the goals and objectives that the Union and its institutions should focus on for the coming years.

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