Nuremberg – ESI at the CSU Europe party convention

Kathrin Wickenhäuser-Egger, Joachim Hermann, Gerald Knaus, and Hans-Eckhard Sommer. Photo: CSU

ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to participate in the "Forum Migration" of the CSU's Europe convention to present ESI's research and proposals for asylum and migration policy. He was on a panel together with Hans-Eckhard Sommer, President of the BAMF (German asylum authority), and Kathrin Wickenhäuser-Egger, Vice-President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Munich & Upper Bavaria. The Forum was led by Bavarian minister of the interior Joachim Herrmann and Andrea Lindholz, MP at the German Bundestag.

• The New York Times, John Dalhuisen, "How to Win the Fight Over Europe's 'Refugee Crisis'" (27 March 2019)
• ESI paper: "Amsterdam in the Mediterranean" – How a Dutch-style asylum system can help resolve the Mediterranean refugee crisis (26 January 2018)
• ESI proposals for the refugee crises in the Central Mediterranean and the Aegean: www.esiweb.org/refugees

Photo: CSU