A new study exploring the early history of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development

This year marks the end of an era at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). After two consecutive terms, ICMPD Director General Michael Spindelegger will retire from the organization at the end of 2025. Since 2016, the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria has contributed significantly to expanding the ICMPD’s footprint in European migration policy, both in terms of mainstreaming the key concepts it advocates for, as well as accelerating its on-the-ground impact and presence across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The ICMPD has played an important role not only in integrating non-EU states on the Balkan route into the European border regime, but also states in the Mediterranean such as Tunisia, Morocco and Lebanon, and states along the so-called “New Silk Road” stretching from Eastern Europe via Central Asia to Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.

Read more: https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/54037/expanding-the-european-border-regime

AUTHORS: Fabian Georgi, Sofian Philip Naceur

PUBLISHER: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung North Africa Regional Office Tunis