THE CHALLENGE OF CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION: balancing security concerns and humanitarian commitments The Jean Monnet Project “Europe Dialogue on Migration: Cross-Border Mobility and the European Union Refugee Crisis” (CEDoM) was pleased to co-organize a series of public events in conjunction with the Canadian Council for Refugees’ Consultation at...

New Policy Memo by Franziska Fischer, University of Victoria

Full POLICY MEMO Welcoming refugees into the community: Privately - sponsored refugees and the community partnership network model By Alex Norfolk Purpose This policy memo presents and evaluates a model for supporting private sponsorship groups in Victoria, British Columbia. The memo concludes that there is strong potential for replicating such a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces that she will step down as a leader of her Christian-Democratic Party and not run as a candidate in 2021. This step is a reaction to some devastating losses that her party had to face in recent regional elections. Merkel's leadership has been greatly weakened by her response to the influx of refugees into...

Oliver Schmidtke , Director of the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria By all accounts, the meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin was bizarre. While the American intelligence community unanimously came to the conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 Presidential election and indicted12 Russian...

David Moffette , University of Ottawa Introduction After 7 years in power, Mariano Rajoy is no longer Spain’s prime minister. On June 1 st , his minority People’s Party (PP) government lost a confidence vote, a first in the history of democratic Spain. His rival, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez, automatically became the new prime minister. The...

Alex Norfolk, University of Victoria, wrote his Masters on the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program in Victoria Bc. He analyzed the Community Partnership Network led by private initiatives and the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, BC. Based on his investigation Alex came up with recommendations for further improvements of this...

Dr. Oliver Schmidtke , Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria In one way the uncertainty in Italian politics is about to come to an end: More than two months after the elections, Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League (Lega) have presented their government program and their choice for the...