The European Parliament organised a major conference on the future of European asylum and migration policies on Thursday 19 November, involving European officials, parliamentarians and local actors, including the mayors of Mytilene (Lesbos) and Lampedusa, who spoke of their feelings of loneliness and even powerlessness in the face of migrant arrivals.
As the Council of the EU and Parliament started their work on the new ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ presented on 23 September, the aim...