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This last online event of this year was co-hosted by the Migration Research Institute and the newly established Climate Policy Institute. The online conference aimed to answer the question, whether climate change could cause further waves of migration. Even though the three presenters approached the issue differently, they have reached similar conclusions.

Our senior researcher, Norbert Tóth said on Kossuth Radio that the European Commission would help the European integration of future migrants by organizing pre-departure programs (for instance language courses).

Have the European Christian Democrats given up their principles? Can the EU replace NATO? What about al-Qaeda and the Islamic State? Is there a terrorism threat in Hungary today? The relationship between illegal migration and terrorism and the future of Europe have been discussed at the conference of the Migration Research Institute.

Viktor Marsai, research director of the Migration Research Institute told M1 TV that the European Union and the African countries which are the main beneficiaries of the Cotonou Agreement, approach the question of illegal migration quite differently. For the EU it is crucial to protect its own interest on this matter.

Viktor Marsai, research director of the Migration Research Institute told M1 TV that we have witnessed an exponential growth of illegal immigrants on the Canary Islands in the past couple of weeks, and this could severely affect the tourist sector of the island.

If Afghanistan get destabilized, and it basically did, it will probably drag Tajikistan down, from there Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are just a stone’s throw away, and that would pose a threat to Russia, said Robert Gönczi, research assistant of the Migration Research Institute on FIX TV.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Ethiopian Prime Minister has waged war against the Tigrayans, who were previously in power, their sympathisers are now bombed by the Ethiopian Air Force. A period of consolidation and development has ended abruptly in this ancient African country, while millions of middle-class citizens are considering emigration. An article by Viktor […]

The attack in Nice proves the complete failure of immigration policy, and the riot in Vienna shows that the countries of origin are able to manipulate migrants. In both cases, a crime against civilization was committed. Our senior researcher, Bianka Speidl talked about the terrorist attack in Nice and the vandalism of Antonskirche in Wien […]

Probably, compulsion has led the Kurds to grant amnesty to some of the jihadists in their captivity in Syria. The Kurds do not have sufficient resources to support all the captured soldiers and their families in the camps. Jihadists who have been granted amnesty may head for Europe via Turkey, on the other hand, secret […]

Our senior researcher, Bianka Speidl said on Kossuth Radio that the recent assassination in France was an act of violence against civilization, in which three actors played the main roles: the state-tolerated radicalized activist, the young immigrant who rejects Western civilization and the so far legally operating Islamic NGO network.

According to a Turkish survey, more than 51 percent of Syrians in Turkey have no plans to return to Syria, and more than 56 percent would not even consider going to another country, said our researcher Nikolett Pénzváltó on M1 TV.

Greece, Italy and Spain are not prepared to conduct mass pre-entry screening of people arriving at the border, furthermore they essentially would use the same information sources for the identification, thus security risk screening would not become more efficient solely by implementing the proposal, said Szabolcs Janik, deputy director of the Migration Research Institute on […]

There are plenty of e-jihadist networks on the internet that follow different tactics to spread their propaganda. These tactics pose a security risk to users, said our research assistant, Blanka Kovács on M1 TV.

In the early 2000s, Mali was considered to be the “model of democracy” in the region, but in 2012 the model collapsed. The military coup of August 2020 was just another stage in the protracted crisis. An article by Viktor Marsai (research director) and Róbert Gönczi (research assistant).

Our researcher, Emese Kovács said on M1 TV that immigrants from Middle Eastern and African collectivist societies have formed clan-based criminal organizations in Sweden which not just deal with organized crime, but have infiltrated Swedish business and political life, and because of this they pose an extraordinary threat to the Swedish society.

Szabolcs Janik, deputy director of the Migration Research Institute, told Kossuth Radio that the clash between Afghan and Pakistani migrant groups can also be interpreted as a reflection of their conflicts at home, but in this case, there might have been a specific reason for the mass fight.

Szabolcs Janik, the deputy director of the Migration Research Institute told Karc FM radio that it is one thing to have procedure rules and deadlines in EU legislation, but in the meantime events are happening quickly at the external borders, and a rather complicated asylum system has been outlined by the Commission, which also raises […]

Our researcher, Bianka Speidl told M1 TV regarding the terrorist attack in Paris that there are many similarities between the perpetrators of 2015 and the current ones with regard to their connections, and in both cases these ties connect French suburbs to European and Middle Eastern centers of Islamist terrorism.

Our researcher, Norbert Tóth emphasized on Kossuth Radio, that although there are efforts in this direction, international law does not consider the so-called climate migrants to be refugees.

The Commission’s new package on migration and asylum seems to be a step forward, however, several Member States have already indicated that they are still unable to support it. Although the reception of asylum seekers is not officially mandatory according to the proposal, it is not at all unrealistic to assume that a Member State […]

How does the new EU migration package look like? How outdated are international asylum regulations in the light of modern challenges? What regulates the influx of climate refugees, and what rules guarantee their access to the asylum system? On the 23 of September these questions were discussed at a joint conference of the Migration Research […]

Africa is the least responsible for climate change and global warming, yet the most vulnerable for its consequences. The Great Green Wall initiative stretching through the entire continent would prevent the desert from expanding, and thereby would give a chance of survival for the overpopulated Sahel. An article in Mandiner weekly by our researcher, Klaudia […]

A number of feasibility issues arise from the Commission’s proposals. Apart from that, it is already obvious that several Member States and EP groups also have problems with the spirit of the package: the left-wing considers it to be too inhumane, while some on the right-wing think it is too permissive, furthermore, distribution is still […]

Cyprus’ immediate return of asylum seekers is not unprecedented, Spain treated the same way those attempting to cross the border to the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Similarly, EU institutions will assess the legitimacy of Cyprus’ actions, said our researcher Mark Vargha on M1 TV. (Photo: AP/Petros Karadjias)