Can the EU handle migration?

After seven years of bitter wrangling, the EU has lastly reached an settlement on the best way to deal with migration — one in every of its most difficult and divisive points.

On this episode of EU Confidential we have a look at what’s within the deal, which has been hailed as successful by Brussels however criticized by NGOs and human rights teams.

Host Sarah Wheaton and Jacopo Barigazzi, POLITICO’s senior diplomatic correspondent, discuss to Catherine Woolard — director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles — in regards to the particulars of the brand new settlement and the way efficient it is likely to be.

Later our visitor is Professor Florian Trauner, an professional on migration on the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He explains how migration has turn out to be the central concern forward of the European election in June, and the way far-right events are co-opting it for political achieve.