The Policy Intrusion of Migration Management: EU Development, Trade and Visa Policies
26 Friday May 2023
Development, Elspeth Guild, EU law, Maja Grundler, migration, Migration Management, Trade, Visa Policies
SERIES OF BLOG POSTS ON MIGRATION AND TRADE PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF. ELSPETH GUILD
NUMBER 3
By Dr Maja Grundler, Royal Holloway University and Jean Monnet Professor ad personam & Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London
This series of blog posts on Trade & Migration is published upon the initiative of Prof. Elspeth Guild in relation with the controversial proposal for a regulation on the scheme of preferences for developing countries that the Commission links to the issue of readmission of irregular migrants.
Coordination of EU objectives in different fields of activity should be beneficial to all areas of EU law. Where problems arise, they often result from the attempt by policy makers responsible for one area seeking to impose their objective(s) and concern(s) on another field. Nowhere is this more evident than in EU migration policy. Perceived failures in making EU law and policy in the area of irregular migration effective (let alone determining what effective means in this context) within the domains under the control of DG Migration and home affairs have resulted in officials seeking to force their objectives into other fields.