Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A Conversation
Syrian and Afghan refugees in Hungary. Image by Freedom House/Flickr
On the 14 September the European Union is staging an extraordinary meeting in Brussels to develop a collective response to the mass arrivals of hundreds of thousands of refugees and irregular migrants that has dominated the summer of 2015.
Risking death in the Mediterranean, smuggled in overcrowded trucks or walking across newly-fenced borders, this influx has forced European governments and the EU to develop new national and collaborative policies to respond to what has been described as Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
This panel discussion brings together representatives of the EU delegation to Australia with researchers in political science, history and international law to analyse the different local, national and trans-national reactions to the crisis and its global consequences.
Please register via the Eventbrite link below.
Location
ANU Centre for European Studies, 1 Liversidge Street, Acton
Speaker
- Professor Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology
- Mr Bruno Scholl, Political Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to Australia
- Associate Professor Francesca Vassallo, University of Southern Maine and ANU Centre for European Studies
- Dr Laurence Brown, University of Manchester and ANU Centre for European Studies
- Chair: Matthew Zagor, ANU College of Law
Contact
- 02 6125 9896