Population related content 

Malmström says scheme will ease asylum burden; family reunification also on the agenda. A possible relocation scheme for asylum-seekers is among the controversial...

Europe's treatment of minorities endangers our core values. To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of...

Countries outside the EU to be linked to the Union through ‘mobility partnerships'. The European Commission will tomorrow (18 November) propose stepping up the EU's...

The world economy thrives on openness and exchange, but many people and most countries are prevented from reaping the full benefits of migration. Today more than 200 million...

Michele LeVoy on her work providing support for refugees and marginalised migrants. When the Platform for International Co-operation on Undocumented Migrants (Picum) moved...

Exploring a demographic question that divides planners and politicians possibly more than any other. There is one obvious solution to the problem of ageing societies in...

Member states' healthcare systems will come under increasing strain in the coming years. Life expectancy in the EU has improved markedly in recent decades, up by six years...

Next year, Europe's working-age population will start shrinking. We set out the policy challenges. Figures and projections for Europe's population have an unremitting...

Assessing a collection of studies of the impact of the economic crisis on migration in Europe. Perhaps no European country better illustrates the vagaries and repercussions...

Georgieva says situation on Horn of Africa needs 'unprecedented response'. Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid...

A European Migration Organisation would help the EU develop clearer responses to migration. EU leaders will discuss reform of the Schengen area at their summit next week...

Commission to launch dialogue with the countries of the southern Mediterranean. The European Commission is set to launch a “dialogue on migration, mobility and...

Europe needs policies that help train north Africans and allow them to circulate more freely between Europe and their home countries. Europe's reaction to the historic...

Should the slaughter of ‘social and political groups' be considered genocide? There is a controversial addition to the debate. Stanford University historian Norman Naimark...

A study of mass immigration and how it has affected everyday life in western Europe. “Immigrant Nations” is arguably the best study in many years of the effects that...

A book that seeks to go beyond the idea of migration policy as the product of competing economic interests. Over the past decade or so, most countries in western Europe have...

An examination of government policies to foster integration. There is a growing feeling in western Europe that multiculturalism has failed and that immigrants ought to...

EU to offer assistance for border management. Measures to stem the flow of migrants from north Africa are to be adopted when the interior ministers of the European Union's...

Court ruling shows that the EU is doing too little to help vulnerable people. Greece's asylum system is in such disarray that migrants seeking protection in the European...