MIPEX 2025 Results Launch & Policy Forum

📅 Date: Thursday, 25 September 2025, 14:00–18:00
📍 Location: Press Club Brussels Europe, Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Brussels & Online

Registration is closed. But the event will be livestreamed. 

As migration continues to reshape Europe’s social and political landscape, integration is no longer a side issue – it is a defining choice for the future of equality, social cohesion, and democratic trust. At a time when public debate is increasingly polarised, this conference will explore evidence-based solutions that strengthen inclusive societies and empower migrants to fully participate socially, economically, and politically.

For over 20 years, the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) has been a trusted global benchmark for assessing the quality of integration policies. In 2025, MIPEX presents updated results for all 27 EU Member States, providing the most comprehensive and current comparative picture yet of national integration frameworks across the Union. The findings cover eight key areas:

• Labour market mobility
• Family reunification
• Education
• Political participation
• Permanent residence
• Access to nationality
• Anti-discrimination
• Health

Programme:

14:00-14:20
Welcome & introduction: Why integration matters
Isabelle Chopin, Director, Migration Policy Group

Keynote message
Magnus Brunner, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration

14:20-14:50

MIPEX 2025: A wake-up call for rebuilding integration policy
Başak Yavçan, Head of Research, Migration Policy Group
Q&A audience

14:50-15:50
Raising standards, closing the gaps

EU policies on migration and inclusion are hampered by widely diverging integration standards across the EU, as clearly shown by MIPEX results. This panel will discuss, from a European perspective, options for overcoming policy stagnation and achieving the same high levels of integration support in all Member States. How to foster a transnational policy agenda, and what role for the EU?

• Aurélie Belzunces, European Commission, Head of Sector on Integration, Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs
• Rita Marascalchi, Council of Europe, Head of Intercultural Inclusion Unit, Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity
• Anilla Noor, Co-founder of European networks of migrant-led organisations and founder of New Women Connectors
• Miltos Pavlou, Project Manager – Social Research, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
• Tineke Strik, Member of the European Parliament, Greens, Netherlands

15:50-16:10
Break

16:10-17:40
Policy exchange: Learning from exemplary reforms and setbacks

This panel will shed light on how policies have changed in EU countries along key dimensions of integration policy. Policy experts from Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Spain will comment on access to nationality, political participation, labour market mobility, education and anti-discrimination.

• Doncha O’Sullivan,  Deputy Secretary at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in Ireland
• Francesco Pasetti, CIDOB – Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain
• Sónia Pereira, Migration Specialist, Former High Commissioner for Migration in Portugal
• Thilo Scholle, Head of Unit, Office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration in Germany
• Renata Stefańska, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland

Audience debate: Conference participants are invited to engage on inspiring models, good practices, possible solutions and challenges in a cross-country perspective.

17:40-18:00
Looking ahead: Take-aways for inclusive policy futures

• Başak Yavçan, Head of Research, Migration Policy Group
  
• Thomas Huddleston, University of Liège & MPG board

Conference moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi 

18:00
Reception

Who should attend?

Policymakers, civil society leaders, migrant representatives, researchers, journalists, and anyone interested in shaping a fairer, more inclusive Europe.

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