Migration – Dr Oliver Hartwich

Apologise, then make it right

The government is effectively forcing skilled migrants to leave the country, while trying to find space in MIQ for other foreign workers to replace them. It is madness in a time of skill shortages and MIQ shortages. [...]

Rocks and hard places in EU refugee policy

The EU’s refugee policy is stuck between rocks, hard places and burnt detention camps. [...]

Housing New Zealand’s migrants

New Zealand's dysfunctional housing market should not dictate migration policy. [...]

A Human Tsunami?

Maybe Merkel meant well. But that is the best you can say about her refugee policy. [...]

It’s time for Merkel to go

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy blunders have come at a staggering economic, social and political cost to Germany and the EU. [...]

A mess of Merkel’s own making

The German Chancellor may not politically survive the disaster she has created — and that would be well deserved. The collateral damage of her failing would be a Europe that sees the resurrection of nationalism, borders and political extremism. [...]

Integrating migration

What do societies gain from migration? What are the social, political and cultural effects of an increasingly mobile global workforce? What problems could arise from the integration of migrants? And how can those problems be mitigated? [...]

It’s the end of the EU as we knew it

It is indeed the end of the EU as we knew it. Britain out, Turkey in and Greece debt free: who would have thought what seismic shifts the refugee crisis could trigger in the EU’s power play? [...]

Germany’s existential refugee crisis

As if Europe did not have enough problems to deal with before the refugee crisis, it is now faced with an even greater challenge: To deal with millions of underqualified migrants. [...]

The growing cost of Europe’s welfare trap

The challenge for Europe’s societies is to ensure that those migrants coming in will not remain welfare-dependent forever but find a way into productive society quickly. On that front, unfortunately, there is just not much reason for optimism. [...]