The first year of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Integration: An evaluation of European policy coordination on migrant integration. Policy Brief Issue 2017/02 • July 2017

Leão, Augusto Veloso and Westerveen , Laura and Adam, Ilke (2017) The first year of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Integration: An evaluation of European policy coordination on migrant integration. Policy Brief Issue 2017/02 • July 2017. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

In June 2016, the European Commission launched the ‘EU Action Plan on Integration of third country nationals’. The Action Plan provides a common policy framework for integration policies in the Member States and aims to promote cooperation and policy coordination in the field of migrant integration. Due to the multilevel and cross-sectoral character of migrant integration, policy coordination is crucial to an effective policy strategy in this area of policymaking. In this policy brief, we take the one year anniversary of the Action Plan as an occasion to evaluate the role of the European Commission in European policy coordination on migrant integration. We discuss the relevant European tools for policy coordination that have been put into place over the last decade and recommend an evaluation of the effect of these tools on the policy responses and outcomes in the Member States.

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