US EditionEU eyes migration clampdown with push on deportations, visas
The EU plans to reduce irregular migration by 26% in 2025, increase deportations, and attract skilled workers to fill labor shortages over the next five years.
- The European Union unveiled two new migration strategies aimed at curbing irregular migration and tightening visa requirements for certain countries.
- One strategy allows for restricting visas for countries that refuse to take back their nationals, while easing visa procedures to attract skilled workers.
- The other strategy focuses on boosting deportations of failed asylum-seekers among the EU's priorities and reinforcing migration diplomacy with third countries.
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Against labour shortages and irregular migration: EU Migration Commissioner Brunner promises much of his approach - in the long term also a departure from Germany's border controls.
Against labour shortages and irregular migration: EU Migration Commissioner Brunner promises much of his approach - in the long term also a departure from Germany's border controls.
EU Tightens Visas and Borders—Opens Door to “Selective” Migration
The European Union is preparing to roll out one of the most far-reaching overhauls of its migration and visa policy in decades. Brussels presents it as a shift toward “order, security and efficiency.” Yet a closer reading of the new Migration and Asylum Pact and the first-ever EU Visa Strategy points to a less ambitious reality: not an end to mass immigration, but better tools to administer it, channel it and, to a large extent, legalise it. The…
EU migration chief vows bloc will take control of borders and put 'house in order'
An EU migration chief has vowed the bloc will take control of its borders and bring the "European house into order". Magnus Brunner, the European commissioner for internal affairs and migration, spoke of aiming to "prevent abuse" to EU systems as he unveiled a sweeping new strategy today aimed at cutting the number of illegal arrivals.The EU's five-year migration plan will centre around key objectives including to tackle criminal smuggling netwo…
The European Union (EU) on Thursday unveiled plans to overhaul its visa system and increase deportations, part of a five-year migration strategy that enshrines a tougher approach to the sensitive issue.
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