Long queues at border crossings, need to provide documents to the immigration authorities, restrictions on freedom of movement - all this Europeans recently remembered only when traveling outside the EU. But burgeoning migration crisis and increase of the terrorism threats causes a gradual change of the Schengen regime as one of the main achievements of the European integration, which previously must be preserved and protected at all costs. The EU countries began to restore border controls.

       The authors of the Valdai Club report will discuss, how the migratory pressure increased at the Schengen borders, positions of the EU member states toward the Schengen Agreement, costs of the border control reintroduction, as well as what contemporary challenges mean for Russia.

       Speakers

       Olga Potemkina, Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of the European Integration studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Moscow State University;

       Julia Paukova, PhD, civil servant at the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation (2008 -2016), former deputy head of citizenship and nationality department for the Federal Migration Service.

       Moderator:

       Oleg Barabanov, Doctor of Political Sciences, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation, scientific director of the MGIMO European Institute.

       Venue: Valdai Discussion Club Conference Hall (42 Bolshaya Tatarskaya St., Moscow, Russia), 11.00

       Working language - Russian.

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