European Governance of Migration

With:
Dr. Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC
Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Gregory A Maniatis , Senior European Policy Fellow, Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC
Prof. Stephen Castles, University of Oxford, Oxford
Nyamko Sabuni, Minister of Integration and Gender Equality of Sweden, Stockholm
Jacques Barrot, EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Brussels
Claudia Roth, Chairwoman, Alliance 90/The Greens, Berlin
Prof. Rita Süssmuth, Former Member of Global Commission on Migration and Development, Berlin

International migration belongs today amongst the most prominent challenges of numerous societies.
According to official UN-statistics, in 2005 nearly 200 million people were classified as international migrants - 56.1 million of them live in the European Union (7.7 percent of the entire European population).

The EU migration policy needs urgently to be reformed more than ever before in the past years. Nation-states
are extremely overburdened with the challenges of managing migration as single actors. A contemporary
migration and integration policy can therefore only be a European one. The European Union's migration policy must be integrated into the European economic and social agenda.

The international conference `European Governance of Migration` will bring together well known experts
and actors in politics, academics, economics, and civil society from Europe and North America as well as from the sending countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. High level representatives in politics particularlyfrom the European Commission and the UN are expected to be in attendance. During the three day conference, the participants will have the opportunity to formulate concrete recommended actions for a European migration policy.