Taking Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization of EU Migration and Asylum Policies

  • 18:15 - 20:00 (followed by a reception)
  • Wednesday 4 March 2026
  • Central Brussels (TBA)

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Hosted by: MCC Brussels | Organised by: Mathias Corvinus Collegium 
In partnership with: MCC’s Center for European Studies, Migration Research Institute, Ordo Iuris Institute and the Patriots for Europe Foundation 

After three decades of “common” EU migration policy, Europe still hasn’t found a working answer to mass immigration. 

A new study — Taking Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization of EU Migration and Asylum Policies — by MCC's Center for European Studies and Migration Research Institute, in cooperation with Ordo Iuris, lays out why the EU’s asylum and migration system keeps failing and why it’s built to keep failing.

It points to judicial activism, international legal constraints, deportations that rarely occur, and quota schemes that do not work. The authors propose a three-pillar roadmap to shift powers back to member states, restore sovereignty, and make migration policy answerable to voters again, because that’s the only way Europe can truly take back control.

Programme:

17:45 Registration

18:15 Welcome and introductions:

Zoltán Szalai, Director General, MCC

András László MEP, President, Patriots for Europe Foundation

18:30 Roundtable Discussion:

Rodrigo Ballester, Head of MCC’s Center for European Studies

Viktor Marsai, Executive Director, Migration Research Institute

Jerzy Kwaśniewski, President and Co-founder, Ordo Iuris Institute

Fabrice Leggeri MEP, Member, Patriots for Europe Foundation and former director, Frontex

Moderator: Róbert Gönczi, Analyst, Migration Research Institute

Disclaimer:
This event is co-funded by the European Parliament.
The sole responsibility for its content lies with the authors.

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