Alberto Horst Neidhardt is a Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the European Diversity and Migration programme. He works on asylum, migration, and integration matters, with an interest in the politics of migration and specific expertise in EU law and jurisprudence.
Prior to joining the EPC, he was a PhD candidate in law at the European University Institute, a Teaching Assistant at the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Research Assistant at Queen Mary, University of London. He also gained experience in the law and the politics of mobility working in the Free Movement Unit of the Directorate General ‘Justice and Consumers’ of the European Commission. Alberto is also a part-time Visiting Professor at University of Antwerp, where he lectures on Comparative Law and on Legal Pluralism.
Alberto holds a PhD and an LLM in European and Comparative Laws from the EUI (2018; 2013) and a Master’s degree in International and Comparative Law from SOAS (2011). He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Languages, Culture and Institutions of Eurasia and of the Mediterranean from Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice (2009).
PROGRAMME
PROJECTS
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Common European Asylum System, refugee law, migrants' integration, multiculturalism, politics of migration, EU citizens rights, free movement
CURRENT POSITIONS
Visiting Professor, University of Antwerp
Policy Analyst
EDUCATION
PhD in Law, European University Institute
LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws, European University Institute, Florence
MA in International Comparative Legal Studies (with Distinction), School of Oriental and African Studies
LANGUAGES
Italian, English, French (Intermediate), Spanish (Intermediate), Hindi (basic)
Alberto-Horst Neidhardt, Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre, said, “When legal family routes close or stall, some may try other channels, including irregular migration, which adds to pressure on reception capacity.”
Alberto-Horst Neidhardt, a senior migration researcher with the European Policy Centre, said the European Court of Human Rights is not the primary driver of problems EU states face when trying to deport criminals.
"Neither European law nor the convention prevent them from expelling persons who pose a security threat," he explained.
Nell'ottava puntata di "Bruxelles t’amo non t’amo", il talk show settimanale di Euronews, gli ospiti sono Giuseppe Guerini Presidente della Confederazione europea delle cooperative (Cecop), Francesca Basso, corrispondente da Bruxelles del Corriere della Sera e Alberto Horst Neidhardt, analista dello European Policy Center.
A month after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule, the official EU response remains largely confined to the announcement of assistance for development and economic stabilisation.
A month after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule, the official EU response remains largely confined to the announcement of assistance for development and economic stabilisation.
L’attentat de Magdebourg, la bascule vers le thème de l’immigration.
The desire to review the status of Syrians in Germany could come at a high cost, warns Alberto-Horst Neidhardt, Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre. “Pursuing this decision and conducting status reviews would be very expensive, as it must be done on an individual basis,” Neidhardt explained.
Watch the full episode here.
