Contrary to prevailing mainstream political narrative, the recent migration flows across the Mediterranean to Europe are not the problem. But they have exposed the real problems we face.
The most significant of these is the crisis of leadership that has set states against each other, and citizens against newcomers, in a race to the populist bottom.
Migration policy "breakthroughs" are heralded by reduced numbers of people making it to Europe and rewarded inversely by higher pol...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.