Source: European Parliament
This hearing on 15 July will present two panels with invited speakers. The first panel will focus on how to tackle root causes of migration, such as conflict, food insecurity and climate change, through development cooperation. The second panel will address the coherence between EU migration and development policies in light of among others the 2030 agenda. The invited experts and stakeholders will present their analyses and data, followed by a debate with Members of the European Parliament.
Experts and Members will analyse and discuss two main themes. One panel will focus on how to tackle root causes of migration, such as conflict, food insecurity and climate change, through development cooperation. The other panel will address the coherence between EU migration and development policies, particularly in light of the 2030 agenda. The Hearing will be chaired by Barry Andrews, Chair of the DEVE Committee and moderated by Lukas Mandl. Panellists include Arif Husain, Chief Economist, WFP; Zein Abidine Al-Mounir Talba, Member of Parliament, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Migration and Refugee Affairs, Mauritania; a representative of IOM; Anna Knoll, ECDPM; Vít Novotný, Senior Research Officer, Martens Centre and Raffaella Vicentini, Head of the Global Issues Unit a.i., UNHCR. Takeaways from the Hearing will feed into the DEVE committee’s report on “Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries”.