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.
Opening Remarks:
- Balázs Orbán, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MCC and Political Director of the Prime Minister
Roundtable Discussion:
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Rodrigo Ballester, Head of MCC’s Center for European Studies
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Viktor Marsai, Executive Director of the Migration Research Institute
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Jerzy Kwaśniewski, President and Co-founder of the Ordo Iuris Institute
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Moderator: Yann Caspar, Researcher at MCC’s Center for European Studies
English–Hungarian simultaneous interpretation will be provided at the event.
January 22, 2026
5:00 PM
MCC Scruton
