We have demographic issues within the Europe and we seek more labors - both white collars like doctors, IT engineer or teachers, but as well blue collars like plumber, construction workers or electricians. At the same time, people outside Europe what’s to make a change in their lives and start a new chapter in Europe due to socioeconomical issues. Let’s create a program where people can sign up to come to Europe, learn local language and needed profession in specific region. Let’s say a Palestinian woman from a camp in Lebanon seeks better future and she is ready to move to Sweden, learn Swedish language and get education to become a nurse. EU member state could have a controlled list of such candidates and allow such candidates come to the country under controlled circumstances to learn the language, learn the specific needed profession and fill the gap in the country. It can prevent waves of uncontrolled migration of people who seeks better future because now they could have a legal opportunity to do in in a human way. We already have so called “EU blue card” which could be extended!

ReRoot Project is a small organisation that is just being set up to support unforeseen communities studied in camps with permaculture education, resources for regenerative agriculture and nature based therapy. It supports their short term physical needs as well as long term integration, mental and physical well-being. I just started this project and need support!

If we talk about establishing safe migration routes, we mostly focus on economic migrations and possibilities to absorb migrants effectively into the labour market with measurements such as the European Blue Card. But we have to keep in mind that many people leave for individual or collective safety reasons. We could introduce a form of asylum procedure that examines the rights and needs of people in conflict regions before they start their escape. Because if their application for asylum is successful or they are allowed to be protected subsidiarily the European Union could organise systematic and safe transfer services for those in need. Conflictual situations at EU borders would be prevented without violating human rights either directly by installing camps or indirectly by outsourcing pullbacks in the Mediterranean to the Libyan coast guard.

"A functional integration and immigration system with a distribution key that benefits both immigrants and EU citizens whilst upholding Human Rights" Immigration of people coming into Europe through inter alia Italy, Spain, Greece, can only be kept up if: 1) the people immigrating into Europe have a chance of fair integration, and 2) resources are allocated to a specific number and to all MS with an equal and just distribution system. First, Integration and immigrants into the EU: Integration can only work if there is the infrastructure; a clear plan and precise allocated resources. In order to give a fair chance to every immigrant to integrate into the respective society; in order for a broad offer of Erasmus programs being possible and not cut off, the numbers need to be capped for each quartal / half year or year depending on what statistics provide: how long does an individual need to integrate into the respective MS?   Second, there must be an EU wide distribution key. The rationale is straightforward: There must be more solidarity within the Union and a burden-sharing element. A fair distribution key which inter alia takes the economic capacity, the population size and the absorption capacity into consideration should be implemented by the Commission together with the Council. This would prevent over-burdening certain MS (e.g., Sweden and Germany) and, hopefully, reduce the rising lack of acceptance for taking in further migrants.  Everyone, I invite you to come to the workshop tomorrow concerning this matter and to shape the EU policy in this arena anew. Let's take a big leap forward and encourage each other & I'm beyond eager to hear your feedback!

It is crucial to promote, invest and act on young international, ex-pats and people with a history of migration, living with a chronic condition in Europe. In order to do this, we should implement policies that support healthcare and social security, for young people with a migration history and international background, living with a chronic condition in Europe.

Security at the EU's borders is of course vital. In the Southern Mediterranean, in particular, the situation at the borders is unacceptably unstable.

However, migrants and asylum seekers are not the EU's enemy. They are simply desperate people trying to obtain a better life. Instead, more needs to be done to combat the success of smuggling mafias in the EU's southern neighbours.

This can be done through a strengthened diplomatic and military presence in these areas, but this will only go so far. Far better would be to incentivize migrants' entry into the EU through regular channels. The EU should make it easier for migrants to access member states through means other than smuggling.

The asylum process is currently long and opaque. It should be sped up and made more transparent. Access to legal migration could be improved by the creation of more migration centres in countries of origin, allowing migration pathways to begin without the need for dangerous irregular journeys.

Migrants should be able to apply for visas for the right to work, and to obtain housing and employment contracts from their countries of origin, and then move safely to the EU. Offering regular migration is the answer to heart-breaking images from the Mediterranean.

For those already in host countries, conditions while waiting for confirmation of asylum status should be optimized. The asylum process should also be made more accessible, less bureaucratic, and less intimidating. Any discrimination in these processes should be eliminated.

Mass migration creates chaos: Europe cannot accept everyone. The EU and its Member States have their own problems, and should fix these before attempting to mitigate the fallout of foreign disasters.

NGOs running humanitarian operations in the Mediterranean undermine efforts to reduce immigration. By rescuing smuggled migrants abandoned at sea, their activities break EU border policies and help smuggling mafias to continue their illegal activities. They thus act as smugglers themselves.

The EU should recognize this and treat them more harshly. Their boats should be confiscated or destroyed, to send a clear signal.

Major effects of climate change can already be seen – and will likely get worse in the future, leading to immeasurable suffering and millions of climate refugees. While the EU should take responsibility and put its resources towards aiding less advanced countries to improve their infrastructure and help as many people as possible, it is important to keep a balance: The EU must make sure to keep its structure and safety in mind as it is impossible to structurally deal with the influx of millions of people on its own.

At the moment, the EU depends on neighbouring regimes in Libya, Turkey, Morocco, and elsewhere to help in reducing flows of migrants towards Europe.

This is risky: It opens the EU up to blackmail by authoritarian regimes and may lead to abuses conducted against migrants. To avoid this, the EU should significantly strengthen its capacity to make common foreign policy. It should gain the ability to project its interests further, using soft power where necessary to reduce migration flows at the source.

New external crises require a deepening of common policymaking, and an emphasis on prevention in advance of the causes of migration, rather than an excessive security-focused response to migration once it has taken place. 

Irregular immigration across the Mediterranean poses a significant challenge to border control agencies, among them Frontex– the EU's border and coastguard agency. Recognising this, it may be beneficial to expand Frontex's staff. Satellite imaging of the Mediterranean may also help: satellites paired with sophisticated AI analysis of images could allow real-time alerts to be delivered to Frontex boats, helping them to find migrants' vessels and safely return them to their points of origin.

This would reduce irregular immigration, discourage migrants from undertaking the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean, and reduce smugglers' credibility.

More effort should be put into integrating migrant children in society. Migrant children now have to learn a new language while simultaneously following the regular syllabus. This is ineffective.

Intensive language courses should be introduced so that migrant children learn the language of their new home before they start following regular school syllabuses.

For Europe to successfully manage immigration, strict minimum conditions should be introduced determining the extent to which every migrant should be expected to integrate themselves. Migrants should be made aware of these conditions upon arrival. Conditions should include making an effort to increase their language abilities; to find work; to participate in volunteer activities; and so on. Those who are not willing to accept and act on a commitment to these conditions –and especially those found to have committed crimes– should not be permitted to remain in Europe in the long term.

Of course, this requires that migrants have the opportunities to integrate themselves and to act to reach these conditions. The EU and Member States should therefore invest massively in supporting newly-arrived migrants and candidates for long-term integrated residency.

Young people in the EU often leave their countries and move abroad to find suitable jobs with good salaries, since such jobs are often not available in their home countries. EU funding for projects that create job placement opportunities locally will help decrease the risk of brain drain.

The crisis that Greece has been facing in the last decade is not over. The country, which is one of the pillars in European history, needs as much help as possible from the EU to overcome its financial difficulties. Greece needs radical reforms in social policy and welfare as well as financial aid to manage the migration crisis.

Giving Greece a chance means giving a chance to the future of Europe.

Migrants have for some time been seen as a threat by Europeans. This is wrong: instead, they offer possibilities. Europe's population is not getting any younger, and industries' need for extra manpower will only rise. Equally, rural areas suffering underpopulation can be rejuvenated. Young migrants should be welcomed, educated, and prepared to fill the holes in Europe's workforce, with more migrants being allocated to countries that have relatively older populations and thus greater need.

This should be done in a way that affirms the dignity of migrants coming to Europe. Flourishing for the EU and flourishing for migrants do not need to be held in opposition. Indeed, the sooner this is embraced, the better: a coherent model for integrating migrants into the economy needs to be found as soon as possible to allow the EU to adequately respond to possible climate-caused migrations.

The Dublin arrangement is central to EU migration policy. It has, however, several deficiencies:

• Asylum seekers should, as much as possible, be given a choice of the country to which they are assigned.
• If asylum seekers' applications for protection have not been resolved in the time limit for processing their case, they should not be removed from the EU: they should be protected until their status is defined.
• Distribution of asylum holders across the EU should be determined by a quota based on numerous criteria (including GDP and unemployment rate). This should include a method for ensuring Member States' compliance, allowing greater harmonisation.
• Asylum applications should be made more accessible in countries of origin and transit countries.

Shared border control is extremely difficult. It is thus not surprising that the EU's joint border agency, Frontex, has significant room for improvement. Several ideas are proposed for improving its approach to border management:

• An observer from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) should be present in all Frontex activities, to ensure that migrants' rights are protected.
• Furthermore, FRA should conduct assessments of Frontex's humanitarian response quality, to be included in key subject reports.
• Frontex should be subject to the same transparency requirements as other EU agencies.
• The European Parliament and European Council should be given greater decision-making roles in Frontex's operations.

European countries have often found it difficult to integrate migrants: receiving populations doubt the depth of migrants' cultural assimilation, and fear for the continuation of their traditions. This shows itself in a turn towards populist parties, distrust of the EU and perhaps a long-term drift from democracy towards authoritarianism.

Unless receiving populations can be far better convinced of their countries' ability to fully integrate migrants –to include cultural assimilation and respect for liberal rights and democracy– this worrying turn will continue. Because populations are unlikely to be convinced of this, it would be safer to simply seek to greatly reduce immigration levels to the extent that this can be achieved while maintaining necessary skill levels within workforces and meeting the EU's obligations to refugees.

The recent success of the tennis star Emma Raducanu was applauded; however, it would not have been possible without migration. Migration offers enormous possible benefits to both migrants and host communities and countries, but is also a controversial subject and often the target of fake news.

The EU should counter the effects of disinformation, populism and prejudice through a communications campaign making citizens aware of the benefits of a healthy migration system. This would help to reduce tensions within communities, and contribute to a more constructive debate and migration's role.

Non-EU students graduating from European universities are confronted with a need for work permits and a lack of support. This is a great pity: foreign graduates from European universities have a lot to offer to their host societies. To help graduates wishing to stay in the countries they have come to love, and host nations to benefit from what students can provide, the process for staying in Europe should be made simpler.

An all-EU procedure for obtaining work permits should be attempted; if this is too radical, Member States should at least be encouraged to align their requirements. Non-EU graduates should be offered support in seeking work permits.

Many migrants coming to Europe have received limited educations. Teaching them requires a large amount of resources, and a lot of time. This presents a challenge to hopes of their filling gaps in Europe's workforce, which often has relatively technical requirements. Regular immigration should therefore be restricted to those migrants who offer skills of which Europe has need, and who have already attained a high level of education.

The EU should further develop its Blue Card initiative, using this to attract bright minds to necessary areas of the economy from outside Europe. This allows the EU to keep its borders open, and to maintain regular migration. If necessary, the number of visas per year could be capped.

Within the Schengen area, EU Member State citizens can move freely. However, some aspects of mobility within the EU still demand high levels of time and effort from citizens, hindering ease of movement.

To make free movement more accessible, the EU could seek to: eliminate paperwork burdens when crossing borders; make it easier to obtain social security numbers in non-origin countries; make it easier to obtain a drivers' license or import an owned car; and register in new countries. Countries could also consider providing guides to immigration in English as well as in the state's native language. In addition, free movement would be made more accessible as a long-term option for EU citizens if it was easier to gain other countries' nationalities upon settling there.

Integration in a new country, navigating a new bureaucracy in a new language, is extremely challenging. Migrants need a lot of help in finding the right path. To assist, the EU could support the creation of an app containing comprehensive advice and answers to key questions regarding integration in each Member State. The app would address:

• Migrants' rights and obligations
• Access to job opportunities.
• Information about education opportunities.
• Information about local communities.
• Advice regarding key practicalities, including renting, registration, insurance, etc.

This could be supplemented by a chat-bot with knowledge of national or local laws and systems.

Some countries, such as the Netherlands, offer the option of a “Startup Visa”

Migration to the EU is often the result of underdevelopment elsewhere. The EU should do more to create a stable and secure economic and political environment in the regions from which migrants come. Contributing to the creation of secure and flourishing countries elsewhere is in the best interests of both the EU and third countries.

In some cases, this can be achieved through the elimination of economic links between European countries and former colonies which prevent them from developing themselves, particularly with regard to natural resources. In others, this requires specific development projects. Where this is the case, projects should be carefully monitored to ensure that they improve lives and reduce the incentive to leave, rather than funding corrupt leaders.

A large number of migrants attempting to reach Europe are now housed in camps on Europe's borders. One such camp is Camp Lipa near Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 1,300 people were made homeless after the camp burned down. Inadequate EU aid has done little to improve the very difficult conditions - especially with shelter, water and electricity all lacking.

No-one becomes a refugee for fun. The EU should do more to help migrants stranded on its borders. It should work proactively with national governments, and provide more and better-focused aid to improve squalid camps and prevent conditions from deteriorating. Refugees' rights should not continue to be neglected when help could be given. 

Increasing migration to the EU has seen a corresponding rise in divisive nationalism. This partly reflects a clash between values held in countries receiving migrants, and values perceived to be held by migrants themselves. It risks strengthening exclusionary nationalist parties.

In response, the EU should take a stronger stance in expressing its shared values. This should firstly involve proactive and compassionate EU policy in rescuing and processing migrants entering by the Mediterranean. Secondly, the EU should clearly state its commitment to, in particular, gender rights, to both defang anti-immigrant rhetoric and make clear to arriving migrants that acceptance of inclusive EU values is fundamental.

Following the example of many Nordic countries, we need to increase the funding of programs for immigrants to allow them to receive a strong education focused on the language and the civic values for better integration within our society. Thereby, we can also show both those who already are European citizens and those coming to European countries that being European does not depend on ethnicity, religion or origin, but on shared values such as freedom, equality, integration and respect towards others.

Masks should be distributed equally to everyone living in a Union country, regardless of their status. Legal immigrants from non-EU countries studying or working (and paying taxes), should be treated in the same way, as other residents with equal access to healthcare provisions.