“Informal agreements as an opportunity for a fairer migration policy” | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft https://www.mpg.de/15282216/informal-agreements-migration?c=12641052
The European Commission is currently negotiating with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania to ensure that refugees do not even reach Europe’s external borders – a current example of how the EU is outsourcing its responsibility for migration to third countries. Cooperation like this is increasingly taking place on an informal level. In an interview, legal scholar Luc Leboeuf from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology talks about the risks, but also the opportunities that such agreements bring with them.
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