Attracting skills and talent to the EU

Summary:

Communication published by the European Commission on 27 April 2022, providing an overview concerning its vision for the European Union's legal migration policy.

Further information:

Legal migration is seen as an essential part of the comprehensive approach to migration set out in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which also aims to ensure more coherence between the internal and external dimensions of migration policies.

This Communication sets out the three pillars of the European Commission's vision on the EU's legal migration policy. It aims at fostering a more effective framework for legal pathways to the EU. The document also addresses the immediate need to integrate in the EU labour market the working age people arriving in the European Union as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The text provides the explanatory framework to the Skills and Talent legislative package, adopted on 27 April 2022 and focused on paths for legal migration in the European Union:

• Recast Single Permit Directive;
• Recast Long Term Residents Directive.

Official

European Commission: Press Release, 27/04/2022: Legal migration: Attracting skills and talent to the EU https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_2654

European Commission: Questions and Answers – Attracting skills and talent to the EU (27 April 2022) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_22_2655

Finnish Government: Press Release, 08/07/2022: Commission proposes improvements to the EU’s legal migration policy https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-//1410869/commission-proposes-improvements-to-the-eu-s-legal-migration-policy

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