ICMPD's 15th Anniversary
On the occasion of ICMPD's 15th Anniversary, a symposium on The Future of European Policy on Legal Migration was held in Vienna on 4 December 2008. In the premises of the Diplomatic Academy, speakers representing the host country, Austria, representatives of the European Commission, Sweden, the research and academic community, and ICMPD touched upon various topics connected to migration management and migration development over the past decades. The dense symposium programme gave an opportunity to learn more about migration issues which European countries had to cope with and resolve in the 1990ies, which eventually formed the migration, development and external policy strategies we know today. As expressed in some of the speeches, future migration policy should be based on flexible and transparent criteria, reflecting needs of recipient countries and taking into account global migration trends.
Opening Statement by Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, Director General, Law and
Consular Section of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International
Affairs
From the Budapest meeting to Enlargement of the European Union - speech by Wenceslas de Lobkovics, Advisor, Civil Society Dialogue, Directorate General Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels
External dimension of migration - speech by Marc Richir, Head of Sector - Relex, Immigration and Asylum Directorate, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission, Brussels
Integration policies - speech by Professor Dr. Rinus Penninx, University of Amsterdam
Proposals for a future-oriented migration system
by MMag. Margit Kreuzhuber, Delegate for migration and integration, Social Policy and Health Department, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO)
Globalisation and Migration - presented by Philip Martin, professor at the
University of California, Davis
The ICMPD Perspective - speech by Martijn Pluim – Director, Department of Capacity Building and Operations, ICMPD
The Role of Intergovernmental Dialogues in Shaping European Migration Policy Development - speech by Michael Tschanz, Director, Intergovernmental Dialogues and Research, ICMPD
