This chapter looks briefly at some of the factors involved in financial centre development and in the competition to be one of the leading, global financial centres. Overall, the conclusion which emerges is that the development of financial centres is an evolutionary process of strategically...

With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...