Brussels wants to create more legal pathways for skilled migrants to move to the European Union in order to curb illegal migration, but experts are skeptical about whether it goes far enough. Between two and three million third-country nationals (TCNs) settle annually in the EU to work or study while up to 200,000 people arrive in the 27-country bloc illegally, according to the Commission. Yet Europe struggles with severe labour shortages which have been growing over the past decades and are expected to be exacerbated further as the population continues to trend older and as the bloc seeks to transform its economy to become greener and more digital. According to an assessment commissioned by the European parliament and released in September 2021, "labour shortages are noted for high-skilled and low-skilled work". That's partly because most of the valid permits emitted are done so for family reunification with less than one in five residence permits issued for work reasons. Additionally, just 1.6 % of first-time residence permits issued in 2019 to third-country nationals were under the Blue Card Directive — an EU-wide scheme to attract highly-qualified workers. The sectors forecast to struggle the most in the future include health care, agriculture, forestry and fishery, and information and communications technology, according to a 2020 public consultation. Source:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/04/eu-immigration-is-broken-brussels-is-unlikely-to-be-able-to-fix-it
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