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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Exploding Migration's Ten Most Misleading Myths -- Myth 1: Europe has no need of migrants -- Myth 2: Migrants 'take jobs' from native Europeans -- Myth 3: Migrants raise the risk of jihadist terrorism -- Myth 4: Migrants come to 'sponge' off Europeans' social welfare -- Myth 5: Migrants are a huge burden on Europe's taxpayers -- Myth 6: Europe is so overcrowded there's no room for migrants -- Myth 7: Migrants are 'overwhelming whole cities' -- Myth 8: Cheaper migrant labour depresses wage levels -- Myth 9: Europe can't afford the cost of more migrants -- Myth 10: Robots will make migrant labour unnecessary -- Misunderstandings and muddled official thinking -- 2 Like Covid-19, Migration is a Global Earthquake -- Migration's longer-term challenges -- The full impact of Europe's demographic deficit is yet to come -- The elusive goal of 'managing' migration -- Sorting refugees from economic migrants -- The ebb and flow of a world in flux -- Making sense of youth unemployment -- On the threshold of radical change -- 3 More Migrants, Please! The Economic Case -- The economic evidence is unambiguous -- Shrinking workforces mean shrinking economies -- Manpower shortages are far from just a British ailment -- Without migrants, who will pay for pensions? -- Where does Europe go from here? -- 4 Making 'True Europeans' of the Migrant Millions -- How should 'integration' be defi ned? -- The scale of the integration challenge -- Concentration or dispersal? The relocation dilemma -- Integration is less about 'where', more about 'how' -- Is it the economy, stupid? No, it's education -- How the private sector can help -- 5 From Covid-19 to Ageing: Migration's 'Push' and 'Pull' Factors -- Fortress Europe? Good luck with that!.

The myths hastening Europe's decline -- The world in 2050 : a glimpse into the future -- Managing the new global economy : Europe's chance to take centre stage -- Europe need not fear Asia's rise -- For Europe, Africa spells trouble and opportunity -- The human factor : not enough jobs, but also not enough workers -- Europe's stuttering efforts to catch up with the digital revolution -- Why 'Brussels' lacks legitimacy, credibility, and even genuine power -- Searching for an exit from the EU's political labyrinth -- Putting some muscle into Europe's 'soft power' -- 'Juncker's curse' : why EU leaders don't deliver on their promises -- No master plan for the EU, but an urgent 'to do' list

Includes "Notes on Contributors" ; Does Europe have a collective future, or will the coming years be marked by increasingly incoherent developments within the heterogeneous EU? There is no denying that the second decade of this century has seen a strong mood shift away from the inter-dependence and concerted actions that guided Europe's national governments since the end of World War II, and then since the fall of the Berlin Wall. What connections, if any, are there between the paroxysms of Brexit in the UK and the varying shades of populism in continental Europe? The common denominator may simply be the painful economic pressures resulting from waning global competitiveness. It is clear that the high ideals of the European project no longer exert the same political pull. The EU's dreams of progressing almost seamlessly from a trading zone to a shared political economy are not being realised. Where are the convergence policies that would exert centripetal rather than centrifugal forces? Where is the appetite for reforms leading to political union, and whatever happened to the idea of Europeans speaking with one voice? If the EU continues along its present path, the verdict of history may well be that it achieved little more than the welter of regulations needed to ensure trade flows. In geopolitical terms, Europe as a major player on the world stage may have been an illusion largely created by aggregating national statistics. ; peer-reviewed