Cologne – ESI at panel discussion with Jean Asselborn on how to get to a humane refugee and migration policy
ESI’s Gerald Knaus was invited to speak at a panel discussion at lit.Cologne, an annual international literature festival, on “Moria – and then?”
The panel discussion focused on how the Corona crisis has pushed an important issue into the background: Migration and its humanitarian challenges and the catastrophic conditions in the camps on the Greek islands or at the Bosnian-Croatian border.
Gerald presented ESI’s research and analysis on humane borders, pushbacks at EU borders and the expansion of refugee resettlement quotas and cooperation agreements as concrete answers to the question what a humane refugee and immigration policy could look like.
He discussed with Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister and Minister for Immigration and Asylum, and Isabel Schayani, a German journalist. The discussion was streamed from the Theater am Tanzbrunnen in Cologne.
- Humane Borders - www.humaneborders.eu
- Welche Grenzen brauchen wir? - www.grenzen.eu
- ESI proposals website: EU-Turkey Statement 2.0
- ESI draft of a revised EU-Turkey Statement 2.0, 16 March 2021
- ESI Newsletter: Essay 1 - The promise and the agony – saving the refugee convention
- Berliner Zeitung: Merkel advisor Knaus: Resettle refugees directly to Germany 17 March 2021
- Anadolu Agency, Humane borders, control through cooperation possible: Turkey, EU can show the way, 26 March 2021
- Falter: What borders do we need? Falter podcast of presentation by Gerald Knaus on refugee and migration policy, 5 April 2021
- Focus Online: Interview with Gerald Knaus: The Turkey deal has failed: "Germany could take in 30,000 refugees a year, 16 April 2021