The Trump administration’s approach to irregular migration and border control have been given much attention - and condemnation – also in European media and public discourse, and Norway is not an exception in this regard. However, following the summer of migration of 2015 political debate on migration in Europe has also changed, leading the EU to harden its approach not only by boosting its frontier and coastguard, but also through several new crisis response initiatives in North Africa, the Sahel and the Middle East aiming at preventing migrants from even reaching the European border.
