20 Years After Tampere's Agenda on 'Illegal Migration': Policy Continuity in Spite of Uninteded Consequences

AuthorVirginie Guiraudon
ProfessionCNRS research director at the Sciences Po Center for European Studies
Pages147-156
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11. 20 YEARS AFTER
TAMPERE’S AGENDA ON
“ILLEGAL MIGRATION”: POLICY
CONTINUITY IN SPITE OF
UNINTEDED CONSEQUENCES
Virginie Guiraudon
1. Introduction
In the rather polarized context of EU politics, immigration and
asylum have become a matter of “high politics” used by certain
government leaders to exacerbate tensions between member
states. e issue has received wide media attention since 2015 and
there have been several Council meetings dedicated to immigra-
tion and asylum. So commemorating the Tampere summit is not
just a step back in time, it takes place in a more discreet and con-
sensual context.
In 1999, a few highly specialized hautsfonctionnaires of the
Council Secretariat well versed in the EU culture of compromise
could prepare a summit and its conclusions with little interfer-
ences from their own institution or from the 15 member state gov-
ernments (Mangenot, 2003). It was a dierent moment than the
politicized character of the 2002 Seville summit when the “BAB
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