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Three approaches: refugee absorption quotas, resettlement programs and asylum processes, can help create a policy that will set an international standard.

In the EU member states, the regulations on labor migration lack transparency, legitimacy and efficiency. Due to demographic changes within the European Union the need for a foreign labor force is evident.

In the policy paper commissioned by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Steffen Angenendt analyses the state of the current European migration policies and suggests principles for a common coherent migration policy in Europe.

Within the public debate the positive potential of immigration is often overlooked. Instead, it is treated as an “imminent threat”. Due to insufficient policies and the neglect of humanitarian obligation, the European Union is becoming less and less of a safe harbour for refugees. There are policy problems around the topic of illegal migration, which is developing into a severe humanitarian and political crisis.

Im Dezember 2007 hat der Europäische Rat angesichts der wachsenden Bedeutung der Migrationstrends ein erneutes politisches Engagement für den Aufbau einer umfassenden EU-Zuwanderungspolitik gefordert.

Im noch jungen Jahr 2008 ist die Debatte um Integration und Multikulturalität neu entfacht. Auf der einen Seite forciert durch die Aktivitäten der Bundesregierung, die 2008 zum „Jahr der Integration“ erklärt hat.

Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts sind in der Europäischen Union (EU) die Schranken für den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr von Waren und Kapital weitgehend beseitigt, und die Bürgerinnen und Bürgern genießen Freizügigkeit. 

In the policy paper commissioned by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Steffen Angenendt analyses the state of the current European migration policies and suggests principles for a common coherent migration policy in Europe.

Umberto Melotti compares the immigration policies in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy to demonstrate a recent tendency towards a more common migration policy.