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8 Mar 2018
Video: IIEA
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to give a presentation on the EU-Turkey Deal at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. In March 2016, the EU-Turkey statement created a basis for tackling the refugee crisis in the Aegean. The deal had an immediate impact…
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20 Mar 2018
Photo: SPORTPLATZ GmbH
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to give the keynote lecture on the future of European asylum and migration policy at the bi-annual Sustain Conference in Bremen.
He argued that a humane policy must aim for zero deaths at sea. It must ensure that all those rescued by European…
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26 Mar 2018
Today Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung published a long article on ESI senior fellow John Dalhuisen: "Wer keine Kompromisse macht, verliert" ("If you don't compromise you lose")
Dalhuisen, born in 1976, worries that Amnesty and Western liberals are harbouring a misplaced confidence in…
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3 Apr 2018
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stefan Braun, "Der Erfolg? Immerhin ertrinken weniger Menschen" - interview with Gerald Knaus - ("The success? At least less people are drowning") (3 April 2018)
SZ: Das EU-Türkei-Abkommen ist jetzt zwei Jahre alt. Ist das Ganze ein Erfolg? Ein Misserfolg? Irgendwas…
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16 Apr 2018
Video: KosovaPress
On 16 and 17 April ESI's deputy chairman Kristof Bender attended the 10th anniversary event of the European Fund for the Balkans in Belgrade. He spoke at a panel discussion on "Time for a New European Balkan Partnership" moderated by Ivan Vejvoda of the Institute for Human…
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10 Mar 2018
Gerald Knaus (right). Photo: Mannheim Forum
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to participate in a panel debate on "Governance - from national to transnational?" organised by the Mannheim Forum. Other speakers on the panel were Sascha Spoun, President of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Joachim…
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12 Apr 2018
Photo: ESI
ESI's Gerald Knaus, Kristof Bender, Adnan Cerimagic and former ESI analyst Besa Shahini (now deputy education minister of Albania) led a two-day workshop ("Action Research, Effective Writing, and Advocacy 2018") organised by the Central European University in Budapest. They conducted…
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16 Apr 2018
Video: Deutscher Bundestag
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to speak at a hearing at the German Bundestag on reforming the common European asylum system. In his statement he stressed the need for a "efficient and humane European system that can win majorities". He said that such a system had not…
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18 Apr 2018
Visby. Photo: flickr/Berit Watken
ESI's Gerald Knaus travelled to Visby for the annual Visby conference organised by the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. This year's conference was entitled Round-Table Conference on "East and West in the New World Order".
Participants included Carl Bildt, former…
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16 Apr 2018
Adnan Cerimagic in Alt-Madlitz. Photo: Aspen Institute Germany
ESI's analyst Adnan Cerimagic took part in a conference titled "Rule of law in the Western Balkans: Exploring the new EU enlargement strategy and necessary steps ahead", organised by the Aspen Institute Germany. The conference took…