All posts tagged "migration"

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  The roots of risk: how economic imbalances are poisoning politics

  Gathering in Paris for the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, finance department leaders from 10 countries debated the political risks threatening economic growth – and their roots in rising inequality,

  • Posted September 12, 2019
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  Reversing the flow: tempting emigrants back home

  Mass migration isn’t only a problem for destination countries; those losing swathes of young, ambitious people can suffer too. Gavin O’Toole explains how Mexico, Mali, Latvia and Ireland are working

  • Posted May 2, 2018
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  Former Canadian supreme court justice to lead on UN migration efforts

  The United Nations chief has appointed Louise Arbour, a former supreme court justice from Canada, as special representative for international migration. Arbour, who has described migration as “one of the

  • Posted March 14, 2017
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  Former UK chancellor condemns ‘idiotic’ Brexiteer lines on EU talks

  Veteran Tory Ken Clarke last week criticised Britain’s ‘doolally debate’ on Brexit – and argued that politicians’ focus on media headlines has undermined good policymaking, leaving the door open to

  • Posted November 22, 2016
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  John Kingman, champion of HM Treasury’s supply-side activism, warns of Brexit threat

  The former second permanent secretary at the UK Treasury last week mounted a passionate defence of its activist micro-economic policies – now under threat in Westminster’s shifting political landscape. Matt

  • Posted October 24, 2016
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  EC claims headway in tackling African migration

  The European Commission has hailed the early results of a new initiative to tackle the root causes of migration in a number of priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Commission

  • Posted October 19, 2016
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  Hungarian poll further blow to EU migrant dispersal plan

  Despite overwhelming domestic support for the Hungarian government’s anti-migrant stance, low turnout rendered its referendum on Sunday invalid, permitting campaigners on both sides of the debate to claim victory. More

  • Posted October 3, 2016
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  UK government under pressure to set out Brexit ‘vision’

  The UK government is coming under growing domestic pressure to explain its Brexit strategy, with MPs of all parties and former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell calling on the prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  Lord O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Ten weeks on from the UK’s EU referendum, former cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell considers why the electorate voted to leave – and tells Matt Ross that new prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  Campaigners need 1m signatures to get meeting with EU officials over asylum air directive

  The European Commission has given campaigners one year to collect 1m signatures for an initiative to abolish an EU directive widely blamed for forcing refugees into risky boat trips to Europe.

  • Posted August 3, 2016
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