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Dr Vicki Squire's commentary on the Valletta migration summit
As leaders from across Europe and Africa meet to discuss how to respond to the current 'migration crisis', Dr Vicki Squire draws attention to the limits of the EU's commitment to "shared responsibility" in its global approach to migration for The Conversation.
European and African leaders are in the Maltese capital Valletta to discuss how they can better cooperate on migration.
Attendees will discuss ideas about how to deal with the devastating consequences of people trying to enter Europe by unauthorised channels. European leaders have agreed to provide African partners with resources to manage migration. But this, like so many other measures to be discussed at this summit, seems a lot like one side trying to persuade another to take a problem away.
Cooperation on this issue is by no means new, but the events unfolding on European shores over the past year show just how limited the results of this co-operation have been.
As more and more people die trying to cross the Mediterranean from places such as Libya and Turkey to Italy or Greece, pressure has grown to come up with a solution that gets to the roots of the current situation.
At this summit, European leaders are seeking to emphasise the importance of “shared responsibility” in managing and preventing migration. The EU’s “global approach” to migration is under the spotlight.
Dr Squire's article can be read in full here.