EUobserver.com: EU work permit 'blue card' faces opposition - by Renata Goldirova
EU work permit 'blue card' faces opposition - by Renata Goldirova
The European Commission's plan to attract non-EU workers has run into difficulties, as several member states question whether Brussels' bureaucracy should play a role in the area. On Thursday (6 November), interior and employment ministers from the 27-nation bloc failed to give complete backing to a set of ideas tailored to tackle one of Europe's major dilemmas - how to fulfil its economic need for guest workers, while alleviating the pressure of illegal migration. Berlin fears that the blue card would be the first step towards Brussels setting out the specific numbers of economic immigrants able to enter the territory of an individual member state.
Note EU-Digest: Europe with its dwindling population needs a good mix of well and mid/lower-level educated immigrants which need to meet specific criteria to enter the EU. The Blue card is one of the instruments which can provide the proper controls to regulate this immigration process.
Labels: EU, Immigration
European labor shouldn't allow themselves to be arbitraged because the blue card is just like the job destroying H-1B visa in the U.S. If you let the blue card happen you guys will be sorry -- at least workers will be -- employers will just get rich off exploiting cheap labor.
To find out more about it, go here:
http://www.capsweb.org/newsroom/opinion_releases/sanchez_blue_card.html
Posted by
concerned American |
1:31 AM
way to go letting an american tell you whats up. since this yank is so open about warning europeans, i figure europeans should warn americans about human rights; racist; killed 1 million iraqis; religious extremism; homophobia; sexist; police state (2 million americans behind bars); greed; etc. i can go on forever. please, europeans, teach this stupid american something about human rights. teach these idiots about nationalism. i see all these americans waving around their american flags. europeans have seen what happens. i respect that it is frowned upon to wave a flag around in europe.
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Anonymous |
10:40 PM