The EU’s Push to Remove Migrants: A Sign of Europe’s Power Imbalance?

The EU’s Push to Remove Migrants: A Sign of Europe’s Power Imbalance?

Lejla Cavcic | Europe and Eurasia FellowImage sourced from Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.The European Union’s (EU) recent albeit failed proposal to send migrants to third countries reflects a growing power imbalance between wealthier member states and poorer non-EU countries. As far-right politics and anti-migration sentiment gain traction, the burden of managing migration is increasingly shifted onto countries with fewer resources and less power.  I…