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Here are the top ten trends that are expected to occupy European foreign policymakers in 2019.

The European Council will have to make crucial decisions regarding the future of the EU in the fields of migration, asylum and border protection, says Elmar Brok MEP. Otherwise, the Mediterranean will remain the deadliest route on the globe.

“Fortress Europe” was how critics used to describe the cordon sanitaire thrown around Europe by strict immigration control. But since the enlargement of the European Union, it is freedom of movement of people within the EU that is causing much of the resentment -- particularly in Britain, which may even vote to leave the EU altogether if she is unable to get some sort of opt-out to control freedom of movement of persons from the EU.

Greece is raising the prospect of debt relief with international lenders as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced a primary surplus of 1.5 billion euros as proof the country’s battered economy will begin to rebound this year.   Samaras said, however, he is keen to avoid a third bailout that may contain additional austerity measures, which he has repeatedly rejected, and …