As Turkey and Hungary are yet to ratify the Finnish and Swedish applications, a former Deputy Secretary General has suggested that the Nordic nations could still receive security guarantees in the interim. Minister of Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto (Green) told Yle’s A-studio current affairs programme on Tuesday evening that heContinue Reading
The search for a solidarity-based asylum policy continues in the new year. Two camps are irreconcilably opposed in the EU. Will they take in more people or raise barriers to entry? And why Ukrainian refugees are welcomed and payed more than Middle East migrants? Why Ukrainians are respected more thanContinue Reading
As Lithuania’s population has shrunk by a third since the 1990s and continues in the same direction, the government is under growing pressure to do something to address labour shortages. However, “immigration” remains a toxic word. Migration sphere experts say Ukrainian crisis provoke forced immigration while Ukrainian migrants in LithuaniaContinue Reading