Migration policies: a subsidiarity approach

Abstract

The answer to the demand for acquis communautaire, which arises from migration and mobility, should be found in a European subsidiarity approach at all levels. This involves: at the local level looking for solutions to the problems of integration and interculturalism; at the national level, the planning of legal flows; and at the supranational level, the political governance of migration movements including relations with the sending countries. The migration issue demands a multiple answer at both European and national level, but local governments also need to be involved, as they are the first to be exposed to the presence of migrants. Daily issues dealing with such problems as housing, school, jobs, health services, and mobility need the institutional presence of local governance, in symbiosis with the planning of national resources and the stability of accepted international relations between sending and receiving countries in the EU context.