Documents obtained by BIRN and DER SPIEGEL show how US management consultancy McKinsey put ‘maximising productivity’ at the heart of European asylum policy, at the cost of refugee rights, critics say.
In 2016 and 2017, US management consultancy giant McKinsey was at the heart of efforts in Europe to accelerate the processing of asylum applications on over-crowded Greek islands and salvage a controversial deal with Turkey, raising concerns over the outsourcing of public policy on refugees.