Taking Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization Of The Eu Migration And Asylum Policies. MCC – Migration Research Institute – Ordo Iuris Institute, 2025

2026

Taking Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization Of The Eu Migration And Asylum Policies. MCC – Migration Research Institute – Ordo Iuris Institute, 2025

This report argues that the only viable path forward is a fundamental rebalancing of competences: a return of competences from the EU to Member States. The diagnosis reveals the structural failures of the EU’s migration and asylum policy, while the remedy offers a roadmap for renationalization – restoring sovereignty, enabling effective border control, and reasserting democratic accountability. The current EU framework has produced paralysis rather than solutions. Its failures fall into several interlinked categories, as seen below.

The report can be downloaded here