European Union's Policy Brief to the Problem of Migrants and Security

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EU’s Policy Brief
The European Union is an intergovernmental and supranational organization composed of 28 member countries in Europe. In essence, it is an economic and political union that binds its member states to laws within a shared judicial and legislative institution. As such, the member countries adopt common laws in issues related to security, finance, and economies. The EU reinforces non-discrimination, solidarity, inclusion, justice, and tolerance. Besides, the organization advocates for human dignity, freedom, equality, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. With a setting like this, EU offers unprecedented operational and financial support to manage migration in Europe. To achieve this, the organization develops comprehensive approaches to reform asylum rules, protects its external border, as well as work with non-member states to inhibit irregular migration.
Moreover, the EU draft laws to enhance security in Europe. For instance, it has drafted legislation to fight terrorism, cross-border crime, and cybercrime. However, despite considerable progress in managing migration and ensuring security, the EU still needs measures to develop a responsible and balanced migration policy, buttressed by solidarity between its member states. This project seeks to develop a policy EU’s policy brief rudimentary to the problem of migrants and security. Furthermore, the project gives comprehensive recommendations for the response of EU to asylum based on internal security.
Problem Statement
Migration is a complex process involving the movement of population across societal boundaries by economic migrants, illegal migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers (Cheliotis 9). However, migration adversely affects societal security. In this context, migration in Europe potentially threatens the countries social stability, cultural identity, political independence, and territorial integrity. This implies that there is a need for reinforcing EU Agency for Asylum operational capacity, as well as implementing policies that will control and manage migration in Europe. Based on the EU, migration correlates societal security with economic and political security (Cheliotis 12). As a result, the organization is facing significant challenges in formulation and implementation of policy on managing migration and enforcing social security. Nevertheless, migration securitization has the potential to undermine human rights and economic efficiency which are among the core values of EU (Caporaso 38). In the end, migration is one of the major European policy agenda.
Challenges of internal security in Europe include political extremism, weakening of social ties and terrorism. All these security threats are closely associated with the influx of immigrants (Cheliotis 12). This raises a question on how contemporary democratic EU’s states can mitigate the challenges linked with migration. Generally speaking, migration is a significant challenge to internal security. Therefore, there is a need to formulate and implement policies aimed at controlling and limiting migrants’ inflow in Europe. To accomplish this, the EU needs to develop an efficient migration policy that will restrain the inflow. With a setting like this, this projects a policy brief that is focused on enhancing the security of EU’s member states by managing migration inflow.
Executive Summary
The EU requires more positive and assertive action to curb the influx of migrants in Europe (Wright 5). In this context, the organization should strengthen its efforts in formulating and implementing migration policies. Therefore, EU should mobilize its resources, as well as have its humanitarian, legislative, security, financial, diplomatic, and legislative instruments drive migration management strategy (Caporaso 92). Furthermore, the EU should prioritize Justice and Home Affair Council (JHA) as a core body in the management of migration inflow (Wright 4). This will enhance its external relations and develop a coherent approach to fostering security.
All in all, JHA has comprehensive policies in judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, migration and asylum, and border management that will reinforce EU’s migration policies (Wright 10). Additionally, the development of justice, security and freedom will be effective if it is strengthened by partnering with third countries (Wright 4). As a result, this will promote human rights and reinforce the rule of law. Finally, the adoption and implementation of seven proposals of the European Commission of 2016.
Background
Migration presents internal security and stability challenges in Europe. The refugee crisis has been a challenge to the EU resulting in rapidly deteriorating situations (Cheliotis 10-11). For instance, Greece struggles with a backlog of refugees while many asylum seekers are in Austria, thus posing a threat to the countries internal security and national politics. Despite the efforts to develop migration policies, EU has not comprehensively addressed the migration menace in Europe (Caparaso 29). Therefore, the following challenges need to be addressed to enhance EU efficiency in controlling migration. First, it experiences normative challenges in the securitization of migration. In this sense, securitization of migration will undermine and jeopardize the core values of the organization including protection of refugee and immigrant rights, increase smuggling, and limit democratic control (Wright 30). Second, the policy challenge in which exclusive focus on immigration can contradict foreign policy goals, finally, the institutional challenge in building a strong human rights framework that brings the dilemma of migration management. With a setting like this, there is an ultimate need to develop comprehensive policies that will ascertain migration management in Europe.
The migration policy-problem needs to be addressed to enhance national security, social stability, cultural identity, political independence, and territorial integrity of European countries. Indeed, these aspects have been inhibited by migration inflow. As a result, reinforcing and designing policies that will enhance management of migration will propagate internal security and sustainability in the European states. All in all, net immigration is creating pressure on EU, thus needs to be addressed now because it is changing the economic, social, and cultural life in Europe (Kennan 2-3). Besides, it poses a security risk. However, the main challenge of finding the solution to this menace is that the effective policies undermine human rights. As previously mentioned, weak foreign policy objectives, frail normative element, insufficient resources, the challenge of coherence, and institutional challenges impede effective migration management (Wright 27). Besides, mitigation measures tend to go against the EU goal of protecting migrants and refugees.
EU’s Current Position
EU has a complex governing structure encompassing of European coun...