From money to people: the ‘refugee crisis‘

The present ‘refugee crisis‘ poses a challenge to Europe.

The third course week turns from ‘money‘ to ‘migration‘. Today, Switzerland is a country with a particularly strict immigration regime for so far as it does not concern economic migration from the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). Like other countries in Europe, Switzerland experiences the influx of migrants from war-torn or other otherwise problematic countries. In Europe, there is much discussion of the so-called ‘refugee crisis‘ and about the usefulness of common rules in this respect.

This step serves as an introduction into the topic whilst we will discuss the question in the following step.

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