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Europe and the huddled Masses

Publishing date: 08 July 2008
Authors: Jakob von Weizsäcker

Jakob on Weizsäcker writes that it is positive that the European Union is getting more serious about a common immigration policy, but that the immigration pact, set to be adopted in October, is not going far enough.

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About the authors

Jakob von Weizsäcker

Jakob von Weizsäcker heads the department for economic policy and tourism at the Thuringian Economics Ministry in Erfurt and is a non-resident fellow at Bruegel where he was resident fellow form 2005 to 2010.

He previously worked at the World Bank in Washington (2002-2005) where he was country economist for Tajikistan and the Federal Economics Ministry in Berlin (2001-2002) where he headed the office of a junior minister. Before that, he worked for Vesta, a venture capital firm, and held research positions at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich and CIRED in Paris.