Never waste a crisis: Trump is Europe’s opportunity (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/11/10/never-waste-a-crisis-trump-is-europes-opportunity/

What Hungary’s referendum says about Europe’s politics and policymaking (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

On October 2, Hungarians were called to the ballot box to vote on the question “Do you want the European Union to be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary even without the consent of Parliament?” The referendum highlights a paradox, at the heart of many of Europe’s challenges today: Policymaking in a variety of domains increasingly takes place at the supranational level, while in the eyes of most citizens, politics still play out overwhelmingly through a national perspective. The lack of a pan-European public sphere only compounds this problem.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/10/03/what-hungarys-referendum-says-about-europes-politics-and-policymaking/

After the emergency: What European migration policy will eventually look like (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

For months, Europe has been dealing with the hectic, day-to-day struggles of managing a massive migrant crisis. While those challenges dominate in the short term, European leaders must also start thinking about medium- to long-term reforms to the European Union’s asylum and migration policies.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/07/27-european-migration-policy-garavoglia

Europe after Brexit: Never waste a good crisis (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/06/27-brexit-europe-opportunities-garavoglia

Is Italy the new Greece? New trends in Europe’s migrant crisis (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/06/13-italy-migrant-influx-garavoglia

Securing Europe's borders: The first step to a comprehensive asylum policy (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

When it comes to the ongoing influx of migrants into Europe, there is one thing that policymakers and officials seem to agree on: Europe needs to increase border security and establish a pan-European asylum policy. But the former has to come first. And getting it right will mean addressing three concentric “security circles”—outside Europe, at Europe’s borders, and inside Europe.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/05/02-securings-europes-borders-garavoglia

Italy is the key to fighting ISIS in Libya (Matteo Garavoglia, Leore Ben Chorin, Brookings)

The ISIS buildup in Libya is undeniable. U.S. Commander General of Africa Command David Rodriguez testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 8 that the Islamic State in Libya represents a serious and growing threat to the security and interests of America and its allies throughout the region.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/03/25-us-italy-cooperation-libya-garavoglia-benchorin

Italy is the Key to Fighting ISIS in Libya (Matteo Garavoglia, Leore Ben-Chorin, The National Interest)

Rome plays a crucial role in the U.S.-led coalition.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/italy-the-key-fighting-isis-libya-15560

The EU-Turkey dirty deal on migrants: Can Europe redeem itself? (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

The one in-one out deal being worked out between the EU and Turkey is testament to the political vacuum we live in. By subcontracting its border management to Ankara’s increasingly authoritarian regime, the European Union is insulting its own values. In doing so, it violates the rights of asylum seekers under international law by undermining the principle of non-refoulement, ignores its duty to condemn Turkey’s increasingly inexcusable human rights record, and gives Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unprecedented leverage over EU policymaking.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/03/14-eu-turkey-migrant-deal-garavoglia

EU Election Observation Missions: Europe united (for once) (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

U.S. policymakers are often irritated by Europe’s inability to act as a single and coherent international actor. They are right to be frustrated. In too many policy areas—with some notable exceptions such as trade and monetary policy—EU member states regularly fail to speak with one voice. Rather, they pursue policymaking through the provincial lenses of their anachronistic national interests.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/02/23-eu-election-observation-garavoglia

EU election observation policy: A supranationalist transatlantic bridge? (Matteo Garavoglia, Brookings)

The European Union’s international partners often accuse it of not speaking with a single voice on key global issues. Yet, there are instances when Europe does display a coherent approach to policy-making in international affairs. In this paper for the Center on the United States and Europe, Matteo Garavoglia argues that EU Election Observation Missions (EU EOMs) are a worthy example of such occurrences.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/02/23-election-observation-missions-garavoglia

Why Europe can't handle the migration crisis (Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/10/05-europe-migrant-crisis-nation-state-garavoglia