Istanbul – ESI seminar on ongoing projects and future research

ESI staff and a few external guests met for a seminar on the island of Büyükada near Istanbul (28-30 July) to discuss ongoing ESI projects and future research. Issues debated were:

• EU enlargement in the times of the refugee crisis and Brexit: Does the accession process still motivate reform?
• EU leverage assessed: Turkey, Macedonia, Bosnia (case studies)
• Progress Reports – how to improve the EU's key tool?
• Non-refoulement, asylum and border control: Is there a red line between serious and farcical asylum status determination?
• Border case studies and their implications (Turkey-Greece, Turkey-Bulgaria, Serbia-Hungary, Ukraine-Poland, Ukraine-Slovakia, Russia-Norway)
• Writing for impact

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