Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda
本文研究为何欧盟层面较少关注移民问题（如人才流失和人口减少），通过议程设置理论分析欧盟制度框架如何抑制该议题上升为欧盟议程，基于2010-2023年精英访谈和文件分析揭示结构性偏见。
Despite emigrations’ adverse impacts on several EU Member States, especially in Central Eastern Europe, topics like brain drain and depopulation have received relatively little attention at EU level compared to concerns associated with free movement and immigration. This article offers an answer to why this is so. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, it argues that the institutional framework of the EU both inhibits and disincentivises attempts to turn emigration into an EU level topic. Seen through the lens of the EU policy, regulating emigration becomes a matter of cohesion policy, which makes it both difficult and unattractive to lobby. To assess the argument empirically, the article draws on elite interviews with national and EU policymakers and document analysis from 2010 to 2023. The analysis reveals a structural bias of the EU and offers an example of how pertinent political issues fail to become EU topics.