The European Union is proposing a blue card to attract skilled workers to Europe in the face of an aging population and a declining birth rate. From London, Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA, the 27-nation bloc is trying to compete with the U.S. "green card" system and programs in other Western countries to get the best-qualified migrant labor
The European Union says it will need 20 million skilled migrant workers during the next 20 years to plug labor gaps in the developed world.
Immigration is a great part of the cultural change occuring today. Both in those countries loosing skilled workers and in those receiving them. The result of this movement and of other modern forms of communication and travel will be a new, common culture. Getting there will be no small task and there will be many intermediate stops. Each of these snapshots in time could be a proper topic for a history study. I wonder if they will pass by so fast that there is no capturing them, comprehending what is going on or making conscious plans for the next step.
Tags: blue card, EU, green card, labor shortage
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