Diversity and migration on the agenda of the 2006 Social Cohesion Forum of the Council of Europe

The EU's migration policy is schizophrenic. The Cohesion policy has mobility as one of its key elements but the parochialities of daily municipal life across Europe makes a mockery of a lot of that.

I do like the Cohesion Policy. I think it will be an important policy in Europe's future.

One of the things I wonder is how the EU generation, who've done multiple Erasmus programs, been around experiencing other European countries the way their parents never did , I wonder what impact they will later have on Europe as the EU project rolls along.

Will people have two homes? Living in Paris the week and spending weekends in Ljubljana? Will they ever get to see themselves as more European that say Belgian or German?

What about integration and opening up to non-Western cultures. Will there be suya spots (suya=Nigerian fast food) on most street corners in Madrid ever. There are many in London already, but the Brits have been quite real about their multiculturalism.

I sometimes wonder if Europe will actually become open to itself and the rest of the world.