Brussels – ESI presentation: "Empathy, control and reason - A policy for Europe"

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ESI's Gerald Knaus spoke at the "Baden-Baden Entrepreneurs' Talks" (BBUG) in Brussels. In his presentation. Gerald argued that migration policy should discourage people who have no need of protection from coming, by sending a clear message that those who do not need international protection will be returned to their countries of origin following a fair but fast asylum procedure. A humane strategy should combine control and empathy, sea rescues and returns.

• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Andreas Ernst and Fabian Urech, "Gerald Knaus: 'Weil funktionierende Rückübernahmeabkommen mit den Herkunftsländern fehlen, wird die EU zu einem tödlichen Magneten'" - interview with Gerald Knaus - ("Gerald Knaus: 'The lack of functioning readmission agreements with countries of origin is turning the EU into a deadly magnet'") (26 October 2018)
• Refugees Deeply, John Dalhuisen Gerald Knaus, How Italy Can Combine Migration Control With Human Rights (13 March 2018)
• ESI paper: "Amsterdam in the Mediterranean" – How a Dutch-style asylum system can help resolve the Mediterranean refugee crisis (26 January 2018) – ​also available in Italian: "Amsterdam nel Mediterraneo"
• ESI proposals for the refugee crises in the Central Mediterranean and the Aegean: www.esiweb.org/refugees