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by Judith Bergman • May 25, 2018
at 5:00 am
- While the focus on
illegal migration remains, the original goal of stopping
African citizens from migrating into Europe appears to have
been lost entirely. Instead, the declaration pronounces
African legal migration to be a positive thing, even stressing
the beneficial idea of migration of certain groups, such as
researchers and business people.
- No one seems to ask
how draining Africa of skilled labor, such as businessmen and
researchers, is going to help the continent develop and thus
stem the trend of migration?
- The Hungarian
government appears to be the only government that considers
whether the citizens it was elected to serve would support the
declaration. Other European governments appear to think that
asking their electorates what they think about African
migration into Europe is irrelevant.
Dimitris
Avramopoulos (center), the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home
Affairs and Citizenship, at the Fifth Euro-African Ministerial
Conference on Migration and Development in Marrakesh on May 2,
2018. (Image source: EU)
"Migration is a priority for all of us
here" said EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and
Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, at the recent Fifth
Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development in
Marrakesh at the beginning of May. The conference is a part of the
Euro-African Ministerial Dialogue on Migration and Development
(also known as the Rabat Process[1]).
The Euro-African Ministerial Dialogue on Migration
and Development was founded in 2006 to contain migration from
Africa into Europe, specifically, at the time, the increase of
migrants crossing the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco into Spain
and from there into the rest of Europe.
The 2006 Rabat Declaration established that the
purpose of the process was to
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