After three decades of “common” EU migration policy, Europe still hasn’t found a working answer to mass immigration. A new study — Take Back Control From Brussels: The Renationalization of EU Migration and Asylum Policies — by the MCC Center for European Studies and the 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 happen, and quota schemes that don’t 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.

* Simultaneous English–Hungarian interpretation will be provided at the event.

17:00 – Opening speech: 

  • Balázs Orbán, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MCC, Political Director of the Prime Minister

17:30 – Roundtable discussion: 

  • Rodrigo Ballester, Head of MCC’s Center for European Studies 
  • Viktor Marsai, Director of the Migration Research Institute
  • Jerzy Kwaśniewski, President and Co-founder of the Ordo Iuris Institute’s Board of Trustees  
  • Moderator: Yann Caspar, Researcher at MCC’s Center for European Studies

 

The event is open to the public and press, but prior registration is required: https://mcc.hu/esemenyregisztracio/2026-01-22-take-back-control-from-brussels-the-renationalization-of-eu-migration-and-asylum-policies