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Europe’s governments this afternoon approved an EU “Blue Card” scheme to attract highly-qualified migrant workers.
The new rules are designed to reverse a situation in which 85% of unskilled migrant labour currently goes to the EU countries, and only 5% to the USA - while 55% of skilled migrant labour goes to the USA and only [...]

Britain, may be indirectly forced by the EU to open its borders to an extra 20-million workers from Asia and Africa. The European Union is planning to introduce a new ‘blue card’ scheme modelled on the American ‘green card’ Work Permit.
EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced: ‘The Blue EU Labour Card’ would allow qualified migrants [...]

The idea behind the Blue Card is a system similar to the US Green Card system for foreign workers. If approved, workers would be permitted to stay in an EU state and work for 2 years, with the possibility of extending that time or spending time in another EU state. The plan is to be [...]

Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, in a speech at an immigration conference in Lisbon, said he would unveil his “Blue EU Labour Card” to the 27-country EU on October 23 to help entice qualified job-seekers to Europe.
“The challenge is to attract the workers needed to fill specific gaps,” he said, noting that only five percent of [...]

Politicians and bureaucrats on the European Union level have been watching the big picture for some time now, and came up with a somewhat awkwardly titled paper called “On an EU Approach to Managing Economic Migration” in January 2005. The originator of the idea, the EU commissioner for justice Franco Fratini, called the idea a [...]