As the refugee crisis continues to dominate European and worldwide interest, the University of Luxembourg's Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance will be hosting a conference on 22 and 23 October 2015 which will explore the current state and future challenges for migration policy in the European Union.
As the European Commission struggled to reach unanimous policy solutions to address the number of refugees arriving at Europe's borders, the influx has caused some Member States to risk diminishing the process of European integration by moving towards restoring internal border controls. Questions are subsequently being raised over the protection of refugee's human rights, with criticism intensifying against the use of the Dublin system which determines the EU Member State responsible for an asylum seeker, usually the State through which the refugee first entered the EU. This in turn may be posing a threat to the social cohesion and security of the European Union.
The conference at the Weicker Building on rue Alphonse Weicker will therefore aim to provide an enriched understanding of the increasingly complex phenomena characterising this mass migration towards Europe. Over the two days of talks, a number of issues will be explored in-depth, including EU migration policy, the current migration crisis in the perspective of EU law, migration policy and societal changes, migration and human rights, as well as irregular migration and criminal law.
Talks will be given in French or English, with speakers including European Court of Justice judge Lars Bay Larsen; representatives of the European Commission, Pascal Schumacher of the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the EU; Christian Klos of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior; as well as professors from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg, and other leading academics and researchers in the field.
The full programme can be found at www.uni.lu. The conference is free and open to the public, and registrations can be carried out by contacting Ioannis Rodopoulos at ioannis-rodopoulos@uni.lu or on 46 66 44 6862.
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