People Power

Giles Merritt has reported on European affairs for half a century, as a Financial Times correspondent in Paris and Brussels, and as an op-ed writer for the International Herald Tribune. In 2010 the Financial Times named him as one of thirty influential 'Eurostars'. He is the founder of the Brussels think tank Friends of Europe and its policy journal, Europe's World. In 2016 his previous book Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future was shortlisted for the European Book Prize.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Exploding Migration's Ten Most Misleading MythsChapter 2: Europe's "Migrant Crisis” is part of a Global EarthquakeChapter 3: More Migrants, Please! The Economic CaseChapter 4: Making True Europeans of the Migrant MillionsChapter 5: Brace for More Newcomers, and for AgeingChapter 6: Only More Help for Africa Can Stabilise MigrationChapter 7: Jihadis, Gangsters and Nobel LaureatesChapter 8: Robots v Cheap Labour: Which Jobs will Migrants Do?Chapter 9: - The Mirage of a Common EU Migration PolicyChapter 10: Here's How to Tackle the Twin Threatsof Migration and AgeingConclusion Index

Here is an authoritative counter-argument to those who oppose immigration from an author who knows his facts. Merritt presents a dispassionate analysis of People Power, a phenomenon which will continue to re-shape Europe's ageing societies.