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1 Mar 2018
Photo: FEPS
ESI's Gerald Knaus particpated a meeting of the "Global Migration Group" in Rome, organised by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), composed by academics, experts and practitioners from several European countries, Senegal, India, Australia, Canada and Mexico and…
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8 Mar 2018
Video: IIEA
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to give a presentation on the EU-Turkey Deal at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. In March 2016, the EU-Turkey statement created a basis for tackling the refugee crisis in the Aegean. The deal had an immediate impact…
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20 Mar 2018
Photo: SPORTPLATZ GmbH
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to give the keynote lecture on the future of European asylum and migration policy at the bi-annual Sustain Conference in Bremen.
He argued that a humane policy must aim for zero deaths at sea. It must ensure that all those rescued by European…
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26 Mar 2018
Today Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung published a long article on ESI senior fellow John Dalhuisen: "Wer keine Kompromisse macht, verliert" ("If you don't compromise you lose")
Dalhuisen, born in 1976, worries that Amnesty and Western liberals are harbouring a misplaced confidence in…
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3 Apr 2018
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stefan Braun, "Der Erfolg? Immerhin ertrinken weniger Menschen" - interview with Gerald Knaus - ("The success? At least less people are drowning") (3 April 2018)
SZ: Das EU-Türkei-Abkommen ist jetzt zwei Jahre alt. Ist das Ganze ein Erfolg? Ein Misserfolg? Irgendwas…
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16 Apr 2018
Video: KosovaPress
On 16 and 17 April ESI's deputy chairman Kristof Bender attended the 10th anniversary event of the European Fund for the Balkans in Belgrade. He spoke at a panel discussion on "Time for a New European Balkan Partnership" moderated by Ivan Vejvoda of the Institute for Human…
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10 Mar 2018
Gerald Knaus (right). Photo: Mannheim Forum
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to participate in a panel debate on "Governance - from national to transnational?" organised by the Mannheim Forum. Other speakers on the panel were Sascha Spoun, President of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Joachim…
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12 Apr 2018
Photo: ESI
ESI's Gerald Knaus, Kristof Bender, Adnan Cerimagic and former ESI analyst Besa Shahini (now deputy education minister of Albania) led a two-day workshop ("Action Research, Effective Writing, and Advocacy 2018") organised by the Central European University in Budapest. They conducted…
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16 Apr 2018
Video: Deutscher Bundestag
ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to speak at a hearing at the German Bundestag on reforming the common European asylum system. In his statement he stressed the need for a "efficient and humane European system that can win majorities". He said that such a system had not…
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18 Apr 2018
Visby. Photo: flickr/Berit Watken
ESI's Gerald Knaus travelled to Visby for the annual Visby conference organised by the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. This year's conference was entitled Round-Table Conference on "East and West in the New World Order".
Participants included Carl Bildt, former…