Appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Migration and Refugees in December 2021, Leyla Kayacik took up her post in January, just over a month before the war in Ukraine began. “We had to react quickly”, she said in an interview with EUROPE, on Tuesday 17 May.
On 9 March, Leyla Kayacik brought together the network of ‘migration correspondents’ set up by her predecessor in 2019. “It is made up of contact points in the Member States’...