Migration: The European Union’s perennial conundrum
09 February 2023 |
3:33 pm
A big step up in requests for asylum last year has put one of the EU's touchiest issues, migration, back in the limelight. One idea is to leverage visa, aid and trade policy to get third countries to take back deportees.
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