Study Launch: Taking Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization of EU Migration and Asylum Policies 
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
Our discussion will feature the authors of the volume presenting their key research findings.
Panelists:
➤ Rodrigo Ballester, Head of MCC’s Center for European Studies
➤ Viktor Marsai, Executive Director, Migration Research Institute
➤ Róbert Gönczi, Analyst, Migration Research Institute
Moderator:
➤ Benedek Tőczik, Junior Researcher, Hungarian Scruton Hub
Date: April 16, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Scruton Salon
(1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 6., 1st floor, Doorbell No. 3)
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